Definately the deterioration in public education. Limpit at 8 is being given school books to read that I had at 5 and 6. Her reading age is well above them, yet the school doesn't have enough books that she can go off and read what she wants.

When I attend parents evenings, the standard of the work is quite advanced but remarkably sketchy - knowing a lot about a few things and hardly anything about what comes between. Knowing all about the Romans and the Tudors is fine, but what about the Plantagenets or the Lancastrians and Yorkists who created the state for the Tudors to inherit?

LTS