"Eradicating Failure..."

SFS Group

Someone might want to point out to the Prime Minister that independent schools have not yet managed to 'eradicate failure' within their own walls, never mind in anyone else's. Certainly at the one I went to, there were all sorts of students who failed terribly. Some were not allowed to come back to the school for sixth form.

Think of it: a school that educates children so badly that it does not consider them of a high-enough standard to attend the school any more... Mr Brown seems to be confusing the notion of 'fee-paying' with that of excellence.

Oh, and he's dropping the requirement for an academy sponsor to make any financial commitment to a school at all - so now you can take over a school, change the curriculum in ways that you want, be exempted from following employment law, pursue your own weird educational theories for free! As long as you belong to a suitable organisation (ie - you are a fundamentalist Christian used car salesman from the North East).