Worth noting that this government has railed against supposed falling achievement rates*, yet are cutting one of the most effective interventions that improves outcomes for lowest achievers.

Switching from cooking in schools to heat & eat is extremely dumb, especially if they're in microwave packaged individual portions - microwaving doesn't scale well.

*Previous discussion on what the maths curriculum changes are, and how they're responding to a "crisis" that doesn't really exist: https://lemmy.nz/post/14030275 https://archive.is/YK9gk

How about both.

He saved them in the sense that they were on the chopping block before the public backlash.

But; now they are a much worse version of what they used to be.