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| Private schools could be required to lend teachers to state schools and share other facilities under proposals by Education Secretary Alan Johnson. | Private schools could be required to lend teachers to state schools and share other facilities under proposals by Education Secretary Alan Johnson. |
| Mr Johnson, a Labour deputy leadership candidate, says independent schools in England and Wales should do more to justify their charitable status. | Mr Johnson, a Labour deputy leadership candidate, says independent schools in England and Wales should do more to justify their charitable status. |
| New charity rules mean private schools now have to pass a public benefit test showing how they add to communities. | New charity rules mean private schools now have to pass a public benefit test showing how they add to communities. |
| They claim many schools would close if not for the annual £100m in tax breaks. | They claim many schools would close if not for the annual £100m in tax breaks. |
| Private schools need to do more to earn their charitable status Education Secretary Alan Johnson | Private schools need to do more to earn their charitable status Education Secretary Alan Johnson |
| Some teachers told the BBC that they found it patronising of Mr Johnson to imply that state school teachers needed the help of private school teachers. | |
| And a spokeswoman for the National Union of Teachers said it was not "a one-way street". | |
| "Private schools have a massive amount to learn from state schools. | |
| "Teaching 30-35 pupils is very different from teaching 15 and requires a totally different set of skills and is much more demanding. That's the big problem that private school teachers will have," she said. | |
| In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson outlined his proposal, saying the independent education sector's charitable status meant it needed to contribute more to its surrounding communities. | In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson outlined his proposal, saying the independent education sector's charitable status meant it needed to contribute more to its surrounding communities. |
| He said private schools could do this by sharing teaching "expertise" with the state sector as well as taking pupils on secondment from local comprehensives. | He said private schools could do this by sharing teaching "expertise" with the state sector as well as taking pupils on secondment from local comprehensives. |
| Mr Johnson also said he wanted the independent sector to sponsor city academies and form trusts to share resources, such as science laboratories, with local state schools. | Mr Johnson also said he wanted the independent sector to sponsor city academies and form trusts to share resources, such as science laboratories, with local state schools. |
| Proposals submitted | Proposals submitted |
| "Private schools need to do more to earn their charitable status," he said. | "Private schools need to do more to earn their charitable status," he said. |
| "It's not enough just to lend their playing fields, it's about opening up their science labs, lending their teachers to the state sector, sponsoring academies and forming trusts. Schools like Eton could be doing more." | "It's not enough just to lend their playing fields, it's about opening up their science labs, lending their teachers to the state sector, sponsoring academies and forming trusts. Schools like Eton could be doing more." |
| He added: "Let them give a bit of their expertise to the state sector." | He added: "Let them give a bit of their expertise to the state sector." |
| I think Alan Johnson needs to pick his words carefully because I think it does sound patronising to the wonderful teachers we have in state schools John O'Farrell | |
| Anthony Seldon, the master of Wellington College in Berkshire, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he would be happy to lend his teachers to state schools. | |
| "It's been a great tragedy for British education over the last hundred years that there has been an apartheid between the state and independent sectors - and this is not helpful for the children, nor the teachers, nor the country at large." | |
| He said there were many more highly qualified graduate teachers in the sciences, languages and maths in the private sector, who should be shared in a "non-patronising way" with the state sector. | |
| Mr Seldon added that there were many ways in which private schools already shared facilities and pointed out that parents pay fees as well as taxes. | |
| Chinese teachers | |
| Some teachers told the programme that it was an insult to suggest that state school teachers did not do as good a job as private school ones. | |
| Novelist John O'Farrell, who chairs the governors of Lambeth Academy in South London, agreed, saying that state school teachers had to teach more varied communities than their private school counterparts. | |
| "We don't really need private school teachers in the state system. | |
| "What might be useful is the odd highly specialised teacher, teachers of Chinese or something, but that aside I think Alan Johnson needs to pick his words carefully because I think it does sound patronising to the wonderful teachers we have in state schools," said Mr O'Farrell. | |
| Mr Johnson, who will appear on Saturday in the latest in a series of deputy leadership hustings meetings, has submitted a series of proposals to the charities' regulator, the Charities Commission. | Mr Johnson, who will appear on Saturday in the latest in a series of deputy leadership hustings meetings, has submitted a series of proposals to the charities' regulator, the Charities Commission. |