I kind of like the idea, actually. It sort of bothers me that having the ability to make any choice about your child's education other than 'national curriculum, standard teaching & learning technique' you have to have money.
I think this will actually be a positive thing and hopefully give parents more of a choice.
Education policy is so not my thing but you may be on to something: at present home schooling requires (I think?) no formal qualifications but it is only an option for a few parents where e.g. one parent has a high enough income to support the whole family and the other parent has enough skill and confidence on matters of literacy, numeracy etc.
This would then open up something that at the moment you have to be pretty strongly middle class to have as an option in life, to a lot wider a range of people.
These liberals and their crazy sekrit-socialist coalition partners 8)
I think there may be a bit of spin in the 'independent of councils' thing, given opting out of local authority control seemed to be flavour of the month for every state school in about 1989.
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Although to be fair - I'm fairly sure that they didn't know how bad the economic situation was.
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I think this will actually be a positive thing and hopefully give parents more of a choice.
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This would then open up something that at the moment you have to be pretty strongly middle class to have as an option in life, to a lot wider a range of people.
These liberals and their crazy sekrit-socialist coalition partners 8)
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