Thing is - in the UK the top schools will be rewarded for making the change.

So it'll be easier for kids in Well off areas right from the start.

Also, realistically, the areas which are most likely to get organized are well off areas where people already have the money and spare time to commit.

Poor working families who commute and can't aford childcare and live in broken communities have infinitely greater obstacles in their path.

Who loses?

The most vulnerable sector of society - disadvantaged children - the ones for wom education reform is most needed.


Then once all the good state schools have gone private and the bad state schools have become worse due to their funds being siphoned away, the tories will say: "look - see - those schools who opted into our program have improved so much - those schools which remained state schools got worse - this proves that local education authorities don't work and that our idea was better for schools."

You wait and see.