Teachers are facing a barrage of questions about Brexit. They can’t stay quiet | Iesha Small

The government wants teachers to express their political views ‘appropriately’. Surely that means telling pupils the truth

“Miss, are you going to vote Ukip?” I was standing in front of my teenage maths students in the run up to the last general election. The school was in a Conservative safe seat. In our mock election the Tories had come first, with Ukip second. I knew the student well and I knew the question was asked out of curiosity rather than as an attempt to derail my lesson.

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