Free education?

Is free education what we want?
Is state control a bad thing?
Is it just another diversion?
To stop people from thinking?

All we get are populist,
Initiatives and ideas
Where’s the beef? you may well ask
Are they going to free us

From drudgery or despair
Or doom and gloom
And bad news
Do they really care?

Or should we just watch football
Instead of getting tetchy
At what the Liberals are up to now?
Bring back the SDP

Is this a turning point
In the education microcosm
Will it only affect a few
Who can afford to drop them
From local government jurisdiction
And hope to run them efficiently
With no restriction

But it wont be as easy as they think
Opting out’s no picnic
Cherry picking the best schools
And leaving the sick

To fend for themselves
In dire straits
Without sufficient money
To do the things they need to do
To educate the many.


This was a response to a report that schools might opt out of the education system, published on the BBC