Politicians' remedies for poor children are bizarre and
dishonest  Michael Gove's Saturday schools brainwave is just the
latest example of a politician keen to talk poverty but dodge
reality     • The Guardian,     • Jump to comments ()  Everyone
has dodgy ideas at election time, but Michael Gove's latest is
implausibly so. He told the Association of Teachers and
Lecturers this week that the Tories could open up schools after
hours and at weekends so "poorer students" get a boost. "For
children who come from homes where parents don't have the
resources to provide additional stretch and cultural
experiences, there are benefits in having those children in the
learning environment, in school, for longer," he said.  The
general secretary of the ATL didn't like it. Mary Bousted said:
"If we want Saturday schools then we need more teachers doing
the extra hours, not the same teachers working longer." Maybe
so, but that misses the blindingly obvious, more compelling
reason to say no: children have a very keen sense