Self service

As if we needed any more evidence that the public sector is run for the benefit of its employees rather than of the people who pay for it, here is the latest proof:

While thousands of state schools received heavy criticism for closing due to transport disruption and fear of accidents on slippery playgrounds, almost all independent schools carried on, they said.

See that? State schools were closing by the thousand, but nearly the whole of the independent sector stayed open.

There's no argument. They must all be privatised.

Comments

[Sam Duncan]

I went to independent schools throughout my education - from the age of 3. As far as I recall, I missed three or four days due to snow - or indeed anything at all, bar ill health. I used to envy my state school friends: days off almost every winter, "in-service" training days, elections...

[DocBud]

Such cavalier disregard for the safety of their pupils. I bet it was carnage in those playgrounds, the snow and ice turned red with the spilled blood of seriously injured pupils. Won't somebody think of the children?