Education, education, education.

The Prime Minister's plans for school reform are coming under fire - mainly from his own party. Personally, I've always found it rather strange that it's perfectly OK to provide special schools and specifically tailored teaching for the educationally sub-normal, but the idea of doing the same for the educationally super-normal produces outrage and cries of elitism. Why should our brightest kids not be given every opportunity to achieve their full potential? I thought we'd got rid of the politics of envy, but apparently not.