Today, local councils will send out offers of places to all children about to enter secondary school in England. With reports of increasing numbers of parents failing to get their first choice of schools, and pressure on the state from recession-hit parents deserting private education, National Offers Day – as it has come to be known – is likely once again to bring simmering conflcts within our deeply divided school system to the surface……..( read on here.)

Read more of today’s Guardian Comment page piece on Tory education policy and why it is not to be trusted.