TEACHERS vowed to tackle the “emerging crisis” in schools yesterday and stop the Tory wrecking ball demolishing our education system.

On the day the National Union of Teachers (NUT) launched its trailblazing Stand Up for Education campaign, NUT general secretary Christine Blower declared: “Every child deserves a qualified teacher for every lesson every day.”

Former education secretary Michael Gove pet “free” schools project has let people with no teaching qualifications whatsoever loose in the nation’s classrooms.

And she pointed out that although free schools were being set up in places where there was no demand for them, local authorities have been banned from opening accountable community schools in areas where there is a desperate shortage — even though 81 per cent of parents believe they should have the right to do so.

The NASUWT union’s Geoff Branner said the Con-Dems were setting teachers and schools against each other despite overwhelming evidence that competition was bad for our children’s education.

The drive to replace qualified teachers with unqualified teachers was part of a plan to cut wage bills to sweeten up schools for the private sector, he warned.

“Every promise made to our children has been broken,” he said.

And ATL general secretary Mary Bousted derided the way children were being manipulated to suit a “test-drive culture” distorting our schools.

“Too many young people are categorised as failures. I say to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan — that is morally wrong.”

NUT deputy general secretary Kevin Courtney condemned an Ofsted inspection system seeing teachers harassed and insulted by fly-by-night visitors with no expertise in the subjects they inspect.

“Standing up to Ofsted is standing up for education,” he told the TUC Congress.

Mr Courtney laid into a culture that saw “teachers unwilling to take jobs in disadvantaged schools, afraid for their jobs as a result of poor inspections, afraid to take risks.

“Teacher working hours are through the roof — 60 hours a week — but it’s time spent on paperwork for accountability not time preparing exciting lessons for our children.”

The Musicians Union’s Kathy Dyson said attacks on so-called “vocational” subjects were depriving a generation of children of “the lifetime of opportunity that a music education brings.”