Should schools stick to the “Real Subjects”?

Libby Purves has an interesting piece in The Times today, here, ”How dare they sneer at ambitious parents.”
She makes the point that, for 2008, we should try to renounce certain chippy cliches, such as the “sharp-elbowed middle classes who colonise the best schools”.   She says although such comments may be fun, they are a distraction from [...]