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  Labour had 13 years to deal with this, and failed miserably. The challenge has to be to get class sizes down and the quality of teaching up. That we are still having this debate so many years after the creation of comprehensives tends to indicate that experiment, whilst fine in principle, fails as a solution. But why?
  
  No one answer to this, but dumbing down quality to hit arbitrary goverment statistics and unrealistic industry HR expectations doesn't help. Should we pay teachers more? We definitely need more teachers, so perhaps get rid of class room assistants and reinvest that money in paying teachers properly.
  
  Has anyone here looked at what is required to become a teacher? The Labour government ran an extensive campaign to get people from industry into education. The trouble is, what they required from candidates compared to what they were offering in recompense wouldn't encourage anyone to make the switch.
  
  Maybe it's time to get the educationalists together to find a solution, and keep the idealistic and interfering politicos out of it until a recommendation is made.

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