[vyper]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/5324682.stm

Apparently, schools may no longer take into account:

reports from primary schools or nurseries about a child's past behaviour or attitude

So any little ****er can get into a good high school even if he's set fire to his primary school etc.

[an0n]

That's stupid.

[Flipside]

I sippose the bright side is, I'm going to just love watching the government try to make this compatible with the 'Child Profiling' plans of Blair and Co.. What they are basically saying is 'You can profile 'em but that profile means jack ****.'

[aldo_14]

Nah, it means profiling is solely for the use of the Department Of Sinister Repression.

Albeit, it's 'don't ask, don't tell' government policy on everything?

[Goober5000]

See, the purpose of government-run school isn't really to educate.  It's to turn kids into obedient little status-quo-accepting serfs.

[Mars]

Every person I've known who has checked their school record has had some stupid ****ing **** in it from an elementery teacher "Little Conner likes to pick his nose..."

[SadisticSid]

That's stupid.

Pretty much describes every government initiative for the past two years.

Also, does anyone find this strange when stood next to Blair's little foray into pre-birth eugenics?

[Rictor]

So the one thing you're renown for: elite prep schools, you want to throw away? Or does this only apply to public school? Britain's prep schools, for all their inate inequality, have put out generation upon generation of world leaders, writers, scientists and indeed pretty much every Brit who has every mattered a damn (including Joe Strummer and Douglas Adams).

[Descenterace]

Also, does anyone find this strange when stood next to Blair's little foray into pre-birth eugenics?

I think the idea is that the schools are supposed to accept orders from On High unquestioningly. This is made easier by denying them access to the information that would let them make decisions themselves.

Blair read 1984 and thought it was a utopia.

[Colonol Dekker]

Send em off to boot camp...........