Latest figures confirm the earlier estimates that some 100,000 children failed to get admission to their first choice secondary schools for September - about 1/5 of the total.
Not only does that make a mockery of ministers' promise of choice, it also removes one potentially effective automatic control mechanism.
Choice gives the opportunity to avoid bad schools. Good schools are encouraged by parental support, bad schools are left to wither away. When you stop that process, the bad schools are given an undeserved lifeline.
It must seem sometimes that it is a tremendous waste of resources to let an established school die away. BUT that is precisely the process that nature has used most effectively to ensure continuing development and renewal.
Tuesday 11 March 2008
Choice in education (5)
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