I am confused. Increasingly confused. For many years we have been told that the shortcomings of the English education system could be attributed in large part to local education authority “control”. I never understood why this should be because it did not tally with my experience, but it was repeated so often that, like propaganda, it has come to be accepted as fact (by some).
The solution, we were told, was to devolve management to individual schools, publish examination results, allow parents to choose schools, allocate funds according to the number of children on roll, and the competition for pupils would push up standards to meet parental expectations.
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