Unindependent Schools

Lord, our would-be Stalinist government is looking for other independent bodies they can stick the knife into with that relish that comes only when those toads in government get the chance to be totalitarian. The economy may be in free fall, but forget that. The government has got the chance to shit all over Independent schools.

According to The Telegraph:

Independent schools are to be made to open their doors to more children from poor homes under guidelines announced to stop them being run as "exclusive clubs"… Schools failing to meet the regulations could have bank accounts frozen, trustees suspended, buildings seized or even be closed down under a range of sanctions.”

I went to an Independent school. I fucking hated it. But that doesn’t mean that I support the government’s attempts to fuck them up as much as possible.

See, Independent schools are elitist. In my experience, they are also racist, sexist and an unpleasant environment to be in. You could ask why on earth anyone would want to send their kids to them. The answer is simple – because the state system is even shittier.

And such is the class envy of Brown and the other shaved chimps who serve in his government that they can’t leave the Independent schools to be, well, independent. They have to intervene, they have to try to drag those institutions down to the same level as the schools that they (nominally) run. They don’t respect the choice of those who want to spend a small fucking fortune by sending their kids to a public school, because choice is irrelevant to them. They want the homogenised society where everyone is equal. In this case – equally mired in the unmitigated shite of the state school system.

This is the very definition of socialism: everyone is equal – equally miserable. Any school that does not conform to the government’s demands should be shut down.

I want public schools to become a thing of the past. But unlike this government, I want people to be able to chose not to send their kids to a public school because the state school system is of equivalent quality to the private school system. That’s the difference between my way of thinking and the Nu Labour way of thinking. I want people to have the choice between the very best of education in the country. They want people to have no choice but to accept the very worst of education in this country.