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If someone can point to a single instance of Ruth Kelly criticising the existence of private schools - in public or in private - then I will accept that she has done anything wrong. But she hasn't. As education secretary, she helped further the co-operation between state and independent schools. Not enough, I say, but she in no way condemned anyone for sending their children to private schools or said they are in any way wrong.
So please explain what she has done wrong, in putting the interests of her child first?
UPDATE: Great minds think alike.
PS If parents had vouchers to spend where they wished, this would not be an issue.
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As I wrote at my blog the hypocrisy charge is because she is the Minister failing to make schools better.
If parents had vouchers, this would not be a problem. True. But Ruth Kelly is part of the government that will not even consider vouchers to be used by parents as and how they wish. (Incidentally, neither will the Conservatives.) That is what she has done wrong not putting the interests of her child first but actively preventing other people from doing the same.
She is not putting the interests of her child first. Tower Hamelts has excellent schools which do have expertise in teaching dyslexics. But she sends her chlidren to the Roman Catholic school which does not have such expertise. She has agonised over the decision, but finally sent her child to a church of england boarding school. Unsatisfactory on all counts.
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She certainly seems to have been against tax relief on school fees:
http://publicinterest.blogspot.com/2007/01/there-seems-to-be-worrying-consensus.html