[ssf] Schools up for sale

[Adam Moran]

http://education.guardian.co.uk/policy/story/0,,1713539,00.html
Matthew Taylor : Guardian's education correspondent

   "The concerns ... on selection and on local authority control
    have been met, so far as they can be. What we can't change is
    the basic proposal that's at the heart of it ...

    If their concerns are deeper or different, or they're to do
    with not wanting this *diversity* in the system at all, then
    obviously there's a problem." - Tony Blair

Diversity
What diversity ?

Choice
What choice ?

   "... rebels believe the mass handover of publicly owned,
    democratically accountable schools to unelected private bodies
    is at least as big an issue as admissions and selection."

Ah ...
The 'diversity' of the private sector ...

  "This month, to underline the government's commitment to its
   new 'external' friends, Blair hosted an event for potential
   backers at No 10, where representatives from Microsoft, KMPG
   and EMI rubbed shoulders with Christian groups - all eager
   to get involved in the new generation of schools."

Capital idea !

This will get those schools to buck-up their ideas !

  "Failing schools will be given one year to turn around, and if
   there has been no progress the presumption will be that the
   school will be closed, with a replacement school or academy
   normally opened on the same site."

http://education.guardian.co.uk/policy/story/0,,1720073,00.html

What we need in the Education sector is economic competition !

Turn the schools in to shops, and if these corner shops can't turn a 
penny, then let them be Morrison out-lets -- and I don't mean Jimmy.

Why oh why did we not think of this before ?!?