Getting into schools should be a real lottery [timesonline.co.uk]
- Published: 02 March 2010
Imagine a world in which every school was great, apart from those that were magnificent. It would hardly matter if children did not get a place in their preferred, magnificent, school. They would just have to make do with the school that was merely great.
But, this morning, here in the real world, almost 100,000 parents will receive, by letter, e-mail or text, the news that they have not got the school they wanted. Everyone will proclaim that new Labour’s obsession with choice is pointless and what matters is a good local school. They are wrong.
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