School's Out.

I noticed this banner outside a local school, and thought....Well that's what happens when public services have to compete for customers/service users or in this case pupils, because if they don't attract pupils, get results and achieve a good position in the league table they don't get the funding, and no parent wants to send their children to a 'bad school,' that has no money to spend on delivering a 'good education'

What next? A banner outside the local hospital proclaiming “Our death rates are below average” I can't see this happening, not yet, because at the moment my local NHS Trust has higher than average death rates, but I'm sure that will change once the figures have been audited, coded and altered, then it will be time for them to bring out the banners.