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After JR87, the question is not how parents withdraw, it is why they need to…

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The previous article in this series closed by noting that Circular 2026/09 had made the right of withdrawal workable for the first time in forty years, but that the harder question — whether the curriculum from which parents may now more easily withdraw will be reformed to the point where withdrawal is no longer necessary — remained open. That question is now being answered from two different directions. The Minister of Education, addressing the Assembly on 3 February, set out ... Read...