Education, Education, Failure

I feel so sorry for teachers, especially in England.  If you care about these things, have a read of this article about the most comprehensive report there has ever been into the school system that our government presides over (in Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland, the devolved authorities are responsible).  Here's a quote:

The report notes the questionable evidence on which some key ... policies have been based; the disenfranchising of local voice; the rise of unelected and unaccountable groups taking key decisions behind closed doors; the 'empty rituals' of consultations; the authoritarian mindset, and the use of myth and derision to underwrite exaggerated accounts of progress and discredit alternative views.

Sadly, sounds like a perfect description, in microcosm, of the wider problem.