Teachers incensed by Dempsey’s ‘spies’
All teachers were well aware that school finished on December 23. That was not what incensed them. It was the instructions given to inspectors to check and spy on schools that infuriated the teachers and possibly the inspectors.
Secondly, the inspectors, like Bush’s, found no missing weapons of mass instruction, but the minister’s hamfisted efforts, like Bush’s, have endangered existing relationships.