There’s a scathing article, by Zoe Williams, about Education Secretary Nicky Morgan in yesterday’s Guardian. Just the opening paragraphs are enough …

In waging a war on illiteracy and innumeracy, Nicky Morgan has fallen for a fascinating delusion: “war” as a metaphor for determined, effective action. In real life war is slow and incredibly destructive; and by the time it is over, nobody can even remember what the objective was.
The education secretary’s bellicose mood takes practical shape with this suggestion: any English primary school that can’t drill times tables into every pupil by the age of 11 will be taken over by new management. Since there will always, in every school, be one kid who can’t manage it, the next government will, some time in 2017, be looking for 17,000 new headteachers.

Never say “never”, “every” or “always” for they will always come back and bite you!