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OFSTED appear not to agree. The school has just been marked down from a 1 to a 3 because the pupils are not achieving enough in a year and because the brightest and eldest are falling behind.

What evidence exactly? My friend's son is privately educated and has had formal homework since he was 6. He's a good year ahead of the kids in the same year at our LEA school and it's been ranked "outstanding". The way that's written sounds like it's progressive nonsense written without a care...

OK all of it wasn't meant to be personal and for that I apologise. The point is that if he'd been taught properly he wouldn't be making such public mistakes.

Aren't you a teacher? Let's hope you're not like my son's head who banned homework and competitive sport because a couple of the more sensitive flowers complained and then spends a great deal of effort worming her way on to every parents' committee and criticising misplaced apostrophes and left...