A little while back, the Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, made a dramatic announcement that one in six schools in England are breaking the admission rules.
Two problems though.
First, the claim was – shall we say – not exactly right. When it came to checking the evidence – the evidence wasn’t actually there for his claims.
And second, it looks to have been carefully timed to bury some genuine bad news about the number of pupils not getting into their first choice school.
Ah well, you can’t really expect the chap in charge of school education of all people to worry about things like getting your research right and writing things up accurately, can you?
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One Comment
Just disgraceful. Balls is such a poor minister and bitter man it is beyond paraody. What amuses me is how the government knows that 8-10% of the electorate are committed believers and yet still hopes to gain their votes after stuff like this.
A new,free thinking, open, liberal education policy is now surely needed!