Today we hear that Iain Duncan Smith, Chairman of the Conservative’s social policy review, will come out with the suggestion that failing schools be offered to parents, teachers or others who can run them better as private trusts.

Three cheers for that. I am in favour of making all English schools independent of the state, to end for ever the divide betwen the privileged few who go to independent schools, and the rest who go to state schools. If it makes sense to deliver better standards in poor performing schools to let them be run?? by others, it should also work for the other state schools.

The only restriction needed is the requirement that if the independent school trust wishes to cease offering an educational service, the assets or their value??that were given by the state return to the state.

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