In a brave and unusual move I've decided to comment on the choice in education policy that both Labor and Conservatives both seem to be proposing but with slight differences: Its a load of rubbish isn't it? If you give everyone an equal choice of which school to send their children too then they'll all choose the same one. That is unless, of course, they are unaware of the choice being given to them which rather unfortunately is usually just the people that these ideas are supposed to help. So what happens if everyone chooses the same school (or at least the same local school)? Presumably the school in question gets to choose which pupils it accepts and leaves some pupils to the schools that they are desperately trying to avoid. That doesn't sound much like parental choice to me? And what happens if we assume that there are huge amounts of surpless places in these good schools so that everyone can choose the same one? What happens to the other schools then? Since schools get funding based on how many pupils they get, it's going to make it very difficult for the failing schools to improve isn't it? In fact I'd go as far as to suggest that they would cease to exist; choice is hardly top of my list of words to describe that outcome. Come on you politicians, use you heads. What people want is better schools not the choice to send their kids to schools further away because they are perceived to be better. Sorry about the rant. Normal geeky ramblings will resume soon.