Here, the purpose is to test the epidemic implications of criterion-based school closure decision making.
It will be great to see schools integrate democratic decision making into cultures and practices which have agency-building as their aim.
They also highlight the considerable variation in practice which has now emerged and, therefore, the importance of transparency on the part of schools and informed decision making by applicants once they know their UKCAT score.
A last factor was the complexity of school systems and hence decision making with co-existing state and religious systems plus private schools in a number of countries.
On Monday this week Prime Minister Scott Morrison jumped into the foray, recommending that students stay at school and leave the decision making to lobbyist-swayed adults.
However, two of the six major types of parental involvement [ 35, 36] could not be extracted from the parents' responses: 5) Volunteering (e.g. help and support for school functions and activities) and 6) Decision making (participation in making school decisions).
As with fracking and the academification of all schools, decisions have already been made behind closed doors by forces beyond our control.
The UKCAT cognitive test scores provided a standardised and objective tool that all schools could use to assist decision making, either at the invitation to interview stage, or at the offer stage, or both.
There is certainly evidence of complex influences and pressures at medical school which may influence careers decision making [ 43, 44].
Legal duty would see equality built into the very framework of schools' decision-making process as a foundation, not an afterthought.
The school board's decision "makes me proud to be an Ohioan," says philosophy professor and evolution advocate Patricia Princehouse of Case Western Reserve University.
