They have failed to improve things – so now they want to destroy the evidence of their failure by randomising school allocation and creating educational qualifications which are designed to obscure the qualities of those who hold them.

Socialism – equality in misery – coming to your children’s future if you let it.

“No parental advice or contact.”
Ans: are these people unsociable/anti-social, uncommunicative ? What is their value to the school then ? Is the greater good of preserving the standard of an excellent institution not more important than ‘fairness’ to any one individual ?

“Internet access problems”
Ans: access is free at the library. If I can get around the Net anyone can – it really isn’t difficult to use.

“Jobs taking up time”
Ans: I posit here that company directors, head teachers and businessmen probably have far less disposable time than most working class people.

“Keeping nasty working classes where they belong.”
Ans: Thanks a bunch, Kat ! I’m working class as it happens. We are striving to get our boys into Grammar education because the local comprehensive is chaotic and the parents just don’t care. No formulae is perfect, but my rule of thumb is that if the parents don’t care then neither will their kids – so why foist them on schools that are doing things right.

“building up and not dragging down.”
The good schools are good because the people in that vicinity strove to make them good. Some have selection on ability – I see nothing wrong with that, the working class accept that this works in football leagues (from which I was excluded) so why shouldn’t this work in academia ?

The bad schools are bad generally because the people in that vicinity did nothing to make them good. The impetus to make good schools comes from good families with good values. The root issue is family breakdown and the fact that a disorderly minority are always allowed to ruin things for everyone else.

From a purely pragmatic point of view we cannot keep slapping the middle classes round the face. They will remove their children to private ed. Failing that they will emigrate because they are QUALIFIED to emigrate and further exodus of qualified people is the last thing we need if we wish to remain a first world country.

And your comment that if they are unable to do this that their children should suffer, and that these same “kids won’t make good use of their education” smacks of the keeping people down rather than building them up mentality that you claim to be in opposition to. Best keep those nasty working classes where they belong eh?

What is this about ?

Another issue:

How green is it to have children being bussed out of their way to go to schools beyond their immediate vicinity ?

So people buy houses in expensive areas – the prices often reflecting the quality of the local schools, which in turn reflect the quality of the people in the area. Which came first ??? The schools, the people or the houses ? You can kick these people as much as you like – they’ll always win. Their skills and wealth will be in demand abroad and that is where they’ll go if you keep offending their sensibilities.

This is about jealousy and an instinctive desire to keep people down rather than build them up.

The killer question – why does Government insist on providing us with dire schooling which people run away from (most notably Labour Ministers)?

We are asking the wrong question.

We should be asking WHY are so many schools crap ?