This really does capture the "anyone can do better than the LEA" bollocks of Gove's thinking. Here, the anyone is a Chuckle Brother. The problem is the free school doesn't seem to exist.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at- ... _1_4220165

Malcolm,

Seen this?

http://www.leighreporter.co.uk/news/loc ... _1_4201958

Wasn't there some estate avoiding going on in London too?

I know that in Wandsworth they gerrymandered estates to keep the nasty oiks away from the yuppies.
I think it goes on a lot. We've just been looking at schools for grand-daughter, and some local primaries have catchments (or areas from where successful applicants are drawn as they put it) of a 300 metre radius round the school...

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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.

Joy of joys, Gove apparently wants to take back control of Universities.

Let's call them academies and save them from the horrors of local authority control. - or something.
Maybe we can find a discredited academic or twoto front up the campaign.
There must be a few holocaust delning historians or anti-vaccination ex-doctors who'd love a bit of free tax money/

.....then they came for the homosexuals........

'Anti-gay' book puts Gove at centre of faith school teaching row



http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/201 ... NETTXT9038

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

So promoting equality is good apart from in the place where there's the most homophobic bullying.

Compare with the Tories in "decontamination" mode

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010 ... NETTXT3487

What a difference an election makes.

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

Why, it's almost like they sit there and tell lies, knowing full well what they're doing. Then they get some power and do what they always planned on doing.

Gee whizz.

Hush your naughty mouth Gourami, how can you say such nasty things about that nice Mr Cameron.............

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

Labour had its share of "let the people of faith off" cunts too, sadly.

So not as good an issue for them as it should be.

When did Gove reply? Barber's letter seems to have been sent in Dec last year.

Did Gove reply just now? Surely he couldn't have thought "stick this is out as part of Christianity week" could he?

Gove really seems to have some sort of weird idea that education exists in a vacuum where the only law that applies is the law he wants to make. It was the same when he came out with all that stuff about making it easier to sack teachers - he seemed to believe that none of the employment legislation and protection applied to them. I couldn't decide whether it was stupidity or arrogance on his part, till I worked out that in fact it's a combination of the two.

That's true of lots of ministers who struggle with joined up government.

Is Gove worse for that then others? Not sure. Blair would have seen no contradiction between promoting gay rights and thinking you shouldn't tread on the toes of homophobes in education. Nor would whoever was behind the post-Blair Equalities Act. Like Blair, he's very happy to say something that he knows is rubbish to get a headline for a day. Blair- march yobs to cashpoints, Gove- bring parents in to run schools when teachers go on strike.



Btw, the sack teachers quickly stuff was dishonest and all- pretending that what took a year was some kind of bureaucratic wrangle, rather than an improvement process designed to help people who needed it- but I doubt it would have broken any law.