I know they cost. I am pointing out that making them smaller may cost less even in the short term than trying to play whack-a-mole with the other issues we have, of which SEND is one. And I am sugges… (View Post)

Do we? France has a lower incidence, but then they have a very poor education system and it is quite hard to diagnose children with anything. Scandinavia has a lower incidence, around a quarter of ou… (View Post)

That's not quite fair. Blunkett knew he was a useless Tristram, although weather he realised it for the right reason is another question. It's one reason why he manoeuvred him out of the ro… (View Post)

Even if we add Classical Civilisations and Ancient History the total barely creeps over 1%. And I would guess most of those are taught it as an extra at lunchtimes or after school. (View Post)

Not a bad point. If they have 6 teachers like me (I think that's the average for GCSE bearing in mind several of us teach more than one subject) then it's about £30,000 a year per pupil. Pl… (View Post)