True.Choice of schools is not in Government’s domain., nor can they dictate people or penalize them for admitting their wards where they want them to study.
Real problem lies in Education system itself,not only in UK, but the world over.Children are made to read(not study)well beyond their capacity, with career alone as the objective with no thought of life skills and character.Parents are as much to blame as the system.Many send children to prestigious schools,for the simple reason to boast that they have sent their children to the best school.
A bright student will be bright irrespective of where he/she studies,provided they have a studious atmosphere at home as well and understanding parents- if parents guide them and not censor them.
Again it is important to note that information is not knowledge;sadly to day we have more information.
Dedicated teachers,involved parents will do the trick.if government enters in education, education is gone.
In India,top ranking students come from so called ‘poor schools’,run by Government'(despite the government’s interference) and even the last President of India,Mr.Abdul Kalam, studied in a very small school in an impoverished city.Parents must know schools,when run by private management, their aim is to make money and not to educate .Do not be fooled by advertisements and facilities provided by them, nor by the percentage of pass or ranks obtained by their students(if your admission criteria is admitting only those who score above 80% or or above ,there is nothing to boast about your hundred percet reults).
In short send the child where the teachers are dedicated and of good character and do not expect too much from the child.The child will become brilliant.
Story:
I once had the misfortune to be seated next to the Schools Secretary Ed Balls at a wedding. When he discovered that I wrote for The Daily Telegraph he took charmlessness to new heights, by turning his back on me for the duration of the meal.
Back then, I was still childless, and he was still chief economics adviser to the Treasury, so apart from concluding that he was a singularly rude, rather truculent man, I had no reason to harbour him any ill will. These days, I fear the incident might end in carnage over the monkfish – assuming I could fight my way through the mob of similarly exercised parents, berating him for a raft of insane education policies that are set to criminalise them.
Did I say “parents”? I actually meant “thieves, brigands and liars”. For this, effectively, is what we have been branded as we scramble to educate our children in a state sector where two in five pupils leave primary school unable to read and write properly.
Middle-class families are accused of theft, because they are taking up places at good schools. How dare we! Anyone would think we paid taxes specifically to fund state education and had as much right to school places for our children as anyone else. Hang on a minute, we do – so how, exactly, can it be theft?
Yet this is the finding of the chief schools adjudicator, Ian Craig, who has declared that tougher sanctions are needed to deter wicked mothers and fathers who “played the system” to get their offspring a place at a school where they might have a fighting chance of emerging literate enough to campaign for their parents to be released from Wormwood Scrubs.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6496152/Ed-Ballss-insane-education-policies-make-school-gate-cheats-of-us-all.html?state=error#postacomment
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