If I had a quid for everytime someone had said that, well I wouldn’t be teaching the collective devil’s spawn about Jane Austen, that’s for sure.

The Times reports that, under the Tories and blathering, bike-riding, blogging ( and other words beginning with B) David Cameron, teachers could be encouraged to start up their own schools. Are they insane? I mean literally, have they spent too long looking for the plums in their throats and the frogs in their heads – or whatever – that they’ve forgotten what a miserable bunch we all are? I can’t think of anything worse than seeing a school run by some of the cretins that grace our staffroom.

The head here is good actually – a moderately inspired chap with the brains to get the limitations we’re working with, but the balls to try anyway. He runs a pretty good school – (according to Ofsted, though what do they really know and that’s a whole other conversation) – but it doesn’t mean you should let someone else who thinks they can do better ‘have a go’. This isn’t putting together Ikea furniture, or trying to fix the broken video.