Thursday 5 May 2016

We Should Be So Lucky, Fiona…

Fiona Millar thinks this is a bad thing
A short-term goal is 4,000 chains running every school in the country, possibly reducing to 1,000 chains in 10 years. It means loss of independent legal status for all schools, the end of school governance as we know it, and multi-academy trusts able to top-slice millions from the budgets of schools that will be no different from branches of a supermarket.
I hope so!

I’ve never, for instance, been refused service in a supermarket because the staff were on strike.

Nor told by the manager and staff I can't buy another supermarket's product if I want to.

Nor lectured on morality when I'm selecting my baked beans and toilet rolls.

So I say: Bring....it....ON!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

they might offer literacy and numeracy!

Weekend Yachtsman said...

What on earth does she mean by loss of legal independent status?

Is she trying to suggest that State Schools are independent?

Independent of what? The State?

ffs.

Ted Treen said...

Fiona Millar:- 'advisor' to Cherie Blair, and partner of Alistair Campbell. Speaks volumes for her insight, rationality and credibility, doesn't it?

JuliaM said...

"they might offer literacy and numeracy!"

As a BOGOF..? ;)

"Fiona Millar:- 'advisor' to Cherie Blair, and partner of Alistair Campbell. Speaks volumes for her insight, rationality and credibility, doesn't it?"

Quite...