Conclusion

Everyone has the right to be concerned about the education of their children. Everyone should have such a concern. If our education system is to develop, it must do so by taking account of this. The onus is on schools to involve parents in their children's education, and on parents to respond to such attempts on their behalf.

The back to the basics movement is not the voice of legitimate concern, but stems from narrow-mindedness and fear. Its leaders, who display many of the worst social qualities, are playing on people's legitimate concern, and seek to reassert the rule of reaction. The movement is linked to our economic system through the threat that liberal education poses to economic and social stability. It represents a dangerous attack on our freedoms and in its fully developed form bears many of the hallmarks of fascism. It must be exposed as such.

Simon Wilson