A growing school of thought thinks so.
Union leaders have warned that the shortfall in applications for teacher training, combined with the growing primary school places crisis, has created "a perfect storm" of falling recruitment and rising demand.
The Targeted Basic Need Programme is a surprisingly well-funded and well-implemented policy designed to stem a growing shortage of school places.
More than 100,000 infants are now being taught in "supersize" classes of over 30 pupils amid a growing crisis over school places, according to new figures.
It is now time for the Tories to abandon their unjustified fixation with free schools, which are evidently not addressing the growing pressure on school places nor driving up standards, and once and for all put the urgent need for sufficient good school places in every local area first".
He said a new school was also needed to solve the growing demand on school places along the border between the boroughs of Wokingham and Reading.
"On education the choice is this: a Labour Party committed to sensible and pragmatic solutions for overcoming the growing pressures on school places, or David Cameron's irresponsible schools policy that prioritises money for new schools in areas with surplus places," he said.
Sophie is now four, turning five – as are all those other babies – and is part of a population boom that is causing a growing crisis in primary school places.
Dr Bousted told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) annual conference in Manchester: "We know that there is a growing crisis in primary school places and we know that the government, for all the money they say they are throwing at the problem, they simply haven't got the mechanism, they haven't got the ability, to plan school provision where it's needed.
The dramatic rise in demand for primary school places will continue to grow over the next few years until two-thirds of councils are expected to have more pupils than places by 2016, local government officials forecast.
