I don't even. Another of the schools (which is essentially my second secondary school [the non-GPDST one] but chopped into bits and turned into a mixed-sex Academy) has teachers who look like irksome businessmen/women in expensivecheap* suits. I really want her to go to the girls' school near us which has been going for a hundred-odd years and has had decent standards for a long time, rather than one of these stupid Academies which seem to be doing ok but are essentially full of unproven 'good ideas', but she is wary of an all-girls' school, which is understandable as most of her friends are boys. ACK! Stupid bloody Hackney.
*ie they probably paid quite a lot of money, but they ended up looking like spivs
Re: the modern managerial approach to schools
*ie they probably paid quite a lot of money, but they ended up looking like spivs