What's more, federal regulations for special education require schools to meet 814 compliance requirements, so it's no wonder that schools struggle to meet these benchmarks nor is it surprising that it's created a compliance-oriented culture in public schools.
The examinations, like so much of French education, require a prodigious memory; a candidate in geography was once failed for having forgotten the name of a Polish mountain.
Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma has found a novel way to teach physical education: require students to wear Fitbit activity-tracking bracelets and lower their grades if they are not active enough.
National and local strategies for higher education require them to demonstrate teaching quality, service to business and the community, concern for the public interest and a role in increasing social mobility.
We have to bring it back to a local level, rebuild the family of education, require local authorities to oversee and provide supplementary resources to schools and allow them to build new schools to meet the need for more places.
But services such as health and education require planning and organisation, and although they have improved since the return of democracy they still fall far short of that aspiration.
