The education spokespeople of the three main parties have said (admitted? confessed? boasted?) that they would be OK with sending their children to private schools. Anyone trying to explain to a Martian how England works couldn’t do much better than to start here.

What happens, Martian Being, I would say, is that we have governments. You see, we can’t govern ourselves, we need people to govern us. In bad countries, governments are a dynastic club, the governing people just bequeath government to their offspring. In other bad countries, the governing people are the ones who end up at the top of the army. In Britain,……………. continues on The Guardian

A family court judge has questioned the right of parents to remove their children from mainstream schooling after a severely disabled child who had been withdrawn from school to be educated at home was found to have suffered years of “serious neglect” and “significant harm”.

Judge Lynn Roberts criticises the laws surrounding home education for failing the child, named in the ruling as James. In her report, the judge finds that although the parents were “loving”, they “refused entry to their home to all professionals, even those involved in James’s home education and therapies for many years”. As a result, James became isola……………. continues on The Guardian