So see what the headline is
A quarter of the free schools which opened in England this year are significantly under subscribed, figures obtained by the BBC suggest.
They interviewed 55 schools which opened in Sept. 41 replied. 14 had significant spare capacity. Normal statistical analysis means that you exclude outliers. But no, they didn't do that. They picked 4 to report.
They include Avanti House School in Harrow, the largest free school in England. It has places for 240 children but recruited only 130 pupils.
Wapping High School in east London was less than half full, with 38 pupils but places for 84.
The Al Madinah Muslim School in Derby fared better with 240 places filled out of a possible 300.
Beccles Free School in Suffolk, which campaigners had tried to prevent opening. It has 87 pupils but places for 162.
And then it keeps on going on and on and on and
notice that they didn't talk about the other 66% of schools or the 2/3rds of the schools who had full subscription. No comparison with schools (which are fully council and government funded) which are closing down (see here for an example). And such is the level of reporting and public policy. There is nothing in our polity that says that we have to deliver school education, pay yes, but why do we also have to deliver? But this idea that government can and has to do every frikking thing is making you and I basically puppets with no independent thought and action.
MUPPETS!
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