The Independent and the BBC report that a Labour-run council in Brighton is to allocate places in over-subscribed popular schools by lottery. To me, this is farcical. The whole point of the marketization of education in the early 1990s was so that parents could choose which school their offspring went to. If it were truly a market then the most popular schools would be able to grow and perhaps have satellite schools. Limiting their size in such a system makes it a mockery of the whole thing. Perhaps it’s time for a rethink of the whole system? :p