I have written a couple times recently on people taking potshots at AERO. It is not praising or defending AERO to note, as I did, that the criticisms were silly, or worse; if prone to idiocy, AERO is OK-ish and is certainly not education’s biggest problem (yet). This scrutiny of AERO, however, is becoming louder and more organised. This is the predictable response to the victory of AERO and their N-E-T mates, and their overbearing manner in victory: the ceaseless chanting of “Rosenshine” and “explicit teaching” as if such cultish chanting explains everything and answers everything is rightly getting up the nose of anyone who is not part of the cult. But that does not mean that this loud and organised criticism of AERO is reasonable, and it seems worth a peek.
