"Leveller - Are you surprised ?"

Surpised - no. Disappointed - yes, on so many levels.

And as for the Scools Policy - it's just a way of letting pushy middle-class parents form their own exclusive private schools, paid for with the money that should be used to support failing schools in deprived areas. As you'd expect from a bunch of public school boys, they're simply trying to reinforce the class system. We've gone back around 50 years. Expect fagging and flogging to be reintroduced by those who believe that children should be bullied, beaten and buggered into submission.