Elephantstrunk

What about the schools that fail? According to  Sir Cyril Taylor the answer is to close them or let them be taken over by other schools. That hasn’t been popular but where is the alternative?

1. Sir Cyril’s figures have been garbled at some stage. 80,000 students is more like 100 than 500 schools.
2. By 1997 definitions there are about 50 schools failing now compared with 600 nine years ago.
3. Sir Cyril’s definition of failing might be preferable and GCSEs may have become easier moving the goalposts.
4. Specialist schools, academies and a lot of money are doing well in Hackney.
5. This is funny.