Tory ideology behind attacks on our schools | Letters

Readers respond to a Guardian leader on government education policy and the new education secretary’s pledge to improve support for teachersYour leader on education (Teachers need a pay rise. But Tory damage to schools goes deeper, 23 July) makes many trenchant criticisms of government policy, but, to my mind, misses the most important objection of all. These policies have been deliberately designed to dismantle the national system of education. That is why there are now seven different ty