Education and Mr Johnson

The suggestion by Mr Johson, a contender in the Labour Party Deputy Leadership stakes, that public schools should lend teachers and facilities to the state sector in return for charitable status misses the point.

Mr Johnson's contribution puts the onus on public schools to improve state education and like so many earlier interventions in Education is at best irrelevant. The responsibility for the state education sector rests unequivocally with the Government of the day. Instead of avoiding this responsibility they should be properly funding state education so that class sizes and the school environment matched that in public schools.