Set up your own free school!! It’s easy!! Any fool can do it and they do!!
- The Creationists can’t wait to get their hands on our kids. They’ll pump money in.
- The Faiths can’t wait to start INDOCTRINATING our children. They’ll pump money in and they achieve such good standards. But doesn’t anybody wonder why we have ISIS, sectarian hatred, school-kids heading for Syria and cultural ghettos? Could it possibly be segregation? And we want to encourage that? Well I don’t!
- You don’t need training or qualified teachers – just enthusiasm. Bollocks! Teaching is one of the hardest jobs on earth. Why do the politicians think any fool can do it?
- They are not subject to the National Curriculum and other initiatives. What? I thought these things were meant to raise standards? If they are essential for State schools they should be for Free Schools – what a nonsense!
- Schools with falling numbers can set up as Free Schools. What idiocy. It does not make economic sense. The Local Education Authority is best placed to assess how many schools are required and where. They may not always get it right but it makes more sense than parent power deciding. In times of austerity with limited funds hard decisions have to be made. Some schools have to be shut. The LEA should decide based on facts not parents based on emotion.
- It costs a fortune to set up Free Schools and that money is being siphoned off from mainstream schools. All our State schools are suffering as a result.
- Free schools are an expensive gimmick to win votes. What a farce!
Read what a highly successful ex-Secondary Headteacher has to say. I’m the only one making sense!