You want to learn - tough

[TheFaQQer]

Keep the kids at home and anaesthetise them with ciggies and cider and Sky Sports, same as their parents. Most of 'em will never get jobs ever anyway, and will just be dole scroungers, so why bother educating them?

EDIT: the chavvy ones anyway. Nice middle class kids whose parents are seeing house price increases should obviously be educated

I didn't realise that Iain Duncan Smith posted on CUK

[mudskipper]

"More than a fifth (20.4%) of primaries are full, or over capacity."

Or

Nearly 80% of primaries are undersubscribed.

[formant]

"More than a fifth (20.4%) of primaries are full, or over capacity."

Or

Nearly 80% of primaries are undersubscribed.

Hehe, way to over-inflate a 'problem'...

[d000hg]

"More than a fifth (20.4%) of primaries are full, or over capacity."

Or

Nearly 80% of primaries are undersubscribed.

Every school should ideally be slightly undersubscribed to enable people to move.

[vetran]

"More than a fifth (20.4%) of primaries are full, or over capacity."

Or

Nearly 80% of primaries are undersubscribed.

as they have steadily pushed up the capacity by holding lessons in the corridor I'm not entirely sure you are being serious?

[formant]

You want to learn - tough

Every school should ideally be slightly undersubscribed to enable people to move.

You also have people moving away in most places though.
Moving children into the upper classes is usually not the issue though, at least around here it's not. It's new reception classes that are overflowing. When moving my older stepdaughter from one school to another (into year 3) no school was full. It was the little one, only starting out who had issues getting into the better schools.

I find this report doesn't illustrate the real issue very well. In most places it's not a case of kids not getting into any school, it's about them not getting into the more popular ones. Well tough, I wouldn't call that a problem as long as there are local alternatives. It's when an entire region is 'full', when I start to find it worrying, but there's not much evidence of that so far. It's pretty obvious that the 'better', more popular schools would tend to be oversubscribed. That in itself doesn't say much about the shortage of resources.

[mudskipper]

as they have steadily pushed up the capacity by holding lessons in the corridor I'm not entirely sure you are being serious?

Wasn't being serious or joking - just interpreting the stats in a different way.