Naming and Shaming - Now in Colour

Change with stability is the watchword of the moderately sensible, and the proposed improvements to the education watchdog's procedure for driving head-teachers to suicide are clearly no exception. Rather than a hierarchy of four crude value judgements comprising one or two words each, the new system will be a hierarchy of five nuanced value judgements comprising one or two words each, accompanied by a colour coding system with, as one would expect, a red card option for the convenience of journalistic lynch mobs. Despite the fact that there could potentially be eight to ten such conveniences per school inspection, the National Association of Head Teachers has reacted with all too predictable ingratitude, filing for judicial review and calling into grave question the status of its members as genuine working people.