Which is worse, the school system, or our opinion of it?

You never know if it's true, but there is more and more evidence that the educational system in the UK is almost completely broken - or, more to the point, that the media and the middle classes think so.

On one hand you have 27% of parents paying for extra tuition as they think so little of what their children are getting [and the Telegraph is right to ask if "improved" exam results are the product of good teaching or of extra tutoring].

And on the other you have the people who are paid to 'run' the educational system - a job that've manifestly failed to do, going by the lack of skills of students entering universities, bleating that they don't want funding from sources they don't approve of - see Tycoon's bid to save sink schools snubbed - as it would weaken their grip on the educational system:

The strategy, apparently, being to fail most students.

That being said, there are [and always has been] a number of students who are determined to fail all by themselves. It will always be difficult to develop a really strong educational system in a society where so many are overtly hostile to education.

But on the bright side, at least things aren't this bad. Yet.