Our battery farm schools failed… guess who’ll pay if we go free-range

Suzanne Moore:

We don’t need no edukashon – so you will be pleased to know that I am thinking about opening my own school.
After all, I only need to write 500 words (shorter than this piece) to apply to do so.
My school will have its own ‘special’ ethos. We can do it in one of those fashionable ‘pop-up’ shops or really any old unused building.
And we won’t have to bother with that dreary old national curriculum.
As I haven’t the time or the inclination to bother with employment law, management, recruiting teachers, CRB checks, admin or training anyone, I will probably have to get some kind of firm to sort it all out and pay them a fee.
Still, sounds great, doesn’t it? My free school.