If there was ever a better indicator of the poverty of thinking of this nasty excuse for a government and of the lies they tell us about localism, it is the fact that they deem it necessary not just to tell thousands of school students that their efforts are a waste of time but that they want to include in the legislation details of precisely how each grade will be designated - numbers not letters, 1 must be the lowest grade, 8 the highest.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22841266
As a Facebook friend recently said - "Scum - all scum."
