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Campaign for Real Education

Field	Value
name	Campaign for Real Education
abbreviation	CRE
formation	1987
status	Non-profit organisation
purpose	Educational standards and parental choice in the UK
location	London
region_served	UK
leader_title	Chairman
leader_name	Chris McGovern
website	CRE

The Campaign for Real Education (CRE) is a right-wing pressure group and non-profit organisation in the United Kingdom that advocates for traditional education, greater parental choice in schooling, and less state regulation of subjects that children study.

History

The CRE was established in 1987 by a group of 14 parents and teachers, although it was effectively a one-man organisation led by Nick Seaton, who ran it from a bedroom in his home near York. It gained national attention after intervening in a dispute at Lewes Priory School over whether pupils should sit O Levels or GCSEs. Two teachers who pressed for students to sit the O Level were redeployed, with one of them, Chris McGovern, later becoming a headteacher in the independent sector and the CRE's chairman.

Aims

The group campaigns to "press for higher standards and more parental choice in state education". It opposes the teaching of sociology and politics. It has been critical of anti-racism and anti-sexism campaigns. In 2021, the group said a mock trial held by Welsh schoolchildren about a Conservative MP's ancestral links to the slave trade was "brainwashing".

References

Denis Lawton (2003) [https://books.google.com/books?id=89WjgVYDdwAC&pg=PT63 ''Education And Politics For The 1990s: Conflict Or Consensus?''] p63
''[https://books.google.com/books?id=-lqQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT53 Dictionary of British Education]'', Peter Gordon and Denis Lawton (2004) Routledge, p34
(25 October 2021). "Trigger warnings put on classic children's books at Cambridge University". Metro.
(11 Feb 2019). "Going out on strike against climate change will do pupils good, says National Association of Head Teachers union".
[http://www.cre.org.uk/about_us.html "About Us"] Campaign for Real Education
[https://web.archive.org/web/20201020212546/https://www.tes.com/news/obituary-nick-seaton-1936-2012 "Obituary – Nick Seaton, 1936–2012"] ''Times Educational Supplement'', London. 4 January 2013
"Teacher Redeployment, East Sussex (Hansard, 21 July 1989)".
[https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/176532/school-heads-perthshire-told-stop-punishing-badly-behaved-pupils/ School heads in Perthshire told to stop punishing badly behaved pupils] The Courier, 21 May 2016
[[Roberta S. Sigel]], Marilyn B. Hoskin (2013) ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=q5doKnc2wJoC&pg=PA41 Education for Democratic Citizenship: A Challenge for Multi-ethnic Societies]'', Routledge, p41
(22 September 2021). "Schoolchildren hold mock trial of MP Richard Drax over ancestral slavery links". [[The Times]].

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