Academies. The academic argument has been shown not to hold water. Nobody who wishes to retain a shred of credibility deploys it these days. The arguments in favour now rely on equally dodgy and tenuous financial and administrative benefits.
So effectively we are left with a doctrinaire policy which effectively gives public property and land to spivs. The sort of spivs who register their businesses as charities in order to dodge UK taxation. It may surprise some that the Tories and Liberals are so wedded to the ideal of redistribution of wealth!
Academies. All about Leadership. Pupils too, after all that’s what schools do.
As for the rest of the outfit: teachers, teaching assistants, cooks, cleaners, techies and admin staff – open season in the hire-and-fire, free-for-all marketplace that Adam Smith would have declaimed as rigged.