Rod MacKinnon, former head of Bexley Grammar School (one of the U.K.'s most popular; it accepts approximately one pupil out of every nine who apply), took to the pages of the Telegraph yesterday to denounce a Labor government that views schools as tools for social engineering.
There are those who wish to use children and schools as social engineers with a view to creating a different society but we should not even be trying to do such things; children need to be nurtured, educated and cared for, not thrown into the frontline of social reform.