Most
of our understanding
of graphic images - the pictures
of decaying teeth and corpses in the morgue which are now slapped on
fag packets - are that they affect you
at first but you quickly learn to ignore them.
I wonder why no - one has had a look
at the difference between LA - run community schools and academies / free schools in the context
of this story... The result
of my quick
fag -
packet calculations (which I'm sure aren't 100 % correct, but I think are probably pretty much on the money): the percentages
of schools which have higher FSM than non-FSM Progress 8 scores are: Free Schools — 6 % Academies — 3.2 % Community Schools — 0.8 % The only reason I had a look is because I was pretty confident that if the figures had been the other way round it would have featured heavily in the article.