Recent growth figures can’t be allowed to fuel unrealistic hopes

The week after Easter has become synonymous in my mind with some teachers behaving badly.

We see media reports of teacher union meetings, where some teachers behave in a manner that could politely be described as ill mannered.

Ignorant is the term I would prefer to use. I just cannot understand why any education minister would expose him or herself to the behaviour that has become an integral part of some of the teacher union conferences.