Phew. Let's look at the figures they quote:
Figures from the Department for Children, Schools and Families showed that on average, 7.1 per cent of 11- to 15-year-olds were taught in independent schools in 2004. But by this year the proportion had risen to 7.3 per cent - a total of 232,620 pupils.
There was also a rise in the number of primary-school age children in private education over the three-year period, from 5.5 per cent to 5.6 per cent - a total of 199,030 pupils.
So there's been changes of 0.1 or 0.2 percent. Not quite an 'abandonment' then.
Three points:
ReplyDelete1. What are you reading the Telegraph for?
2. The figures have always been 7% in private school education - always have and probably always will be! Seems like one of those 'magic figures' of life...
3. All the comments on this supposed 'change' in 0.1 or 0.2%, including our own Laws is highly highly misleading and plays not against the government, but against state education as a whole entity in itself.
Highly damaging for state education indeed. Shows how phrasing something just slightly differently can shed a whole new slant on somthing.
One grammatical error, a punctuation mistake and a typo to boot!
ReplyDeleteVery damaging for state education indeed!!!
I read the Telegraph online (and the Guardian)
ReplyDeleteSome of the columnists there - particularly Janet Daley - irritate me.
But I'd find it hard to get through the day without seeing their cartoons.
Well, you're in very good company as I think Jeremy Browne MP reads the telegraph.
ReplyDeleteCan't beat the Times for cartoons myself.
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