So, Micheal Gove has been talking about the need for weighted subjects, to stop schools entering students in supposedly easy subjects to improve their overall scores.  If this is indeed the case – as Matthew Taylor belives it is - then we do have something to worry about in education. Because purposefully getting children to underachieve is a frightening concept.

And yet, this idea of introducing weighting isn’t the solution. Firstly, we already have it – with maths, science and english (too right) being given special precedence – but then so is IT. And even the rest of the subjects we teach are privvy to a more subtle rating that centres around prejudice and misconception - (is media studies really a ‘monkey subject’? Some of my brightest students are taking it. And the art class puts in more after hours time than anyone else in the school.) The problem with this is that it forces perhaps the more creative and bright students to struggle through a geography A-Level they don’t want to do, because Drama and Art aren’t considered the right ‘level’ of qualification.

It’s all just more election crap – and if the Conservative solution to an apparent endemic of apathy in our schools is as unimaginative  and ineffectual as rating subjects then we really are in trouble.