Deborah Orr: No matter what they say, my local school is still not good enough to send my kids there
1st Mar 2006, 03:25 GMT
I mentioned, in a recent column about the education White Paper, that I couldn't get steamed up about the Government's attempt to release some schools from local authority control, even though it is considered one of the most controversial measures in yesterday's Education Bill. The reason? Because my own local authority had been offering a strikingly poor service for many years, particularly at secondary level. Parents from all walks of life, in this part of London, come close to nervous breakdown when trying to find an acceptable state school for their 11-year-olds. Why should such dereliction of duty be zealously protected by the left?
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