Ed Balls has just announced a 5% reduction in the education budget. He uses phrases such as "wage discipline" and "restraint". Why weren't these terms used when bailing out the banks which are still gorging themselves? I wonder if similar logic will be applied to London 2012, Iraq and Afghanistan? Schools are already using unqualified staff to teach so what next? I've got an idea. To start with if you scrapped OFSTED and ESTYN you would save around £15 million. Then schools would not to waste money on consultants telling them how to pass inspections. You could scrap academies which the government has recently stated they are committed to rolling out. You could scrap PFI schemes in education where there is a library full of evidence showing that these schemes cost thee taxpayer far more money than the public sector. I think any parent should be veery concerned at these worsening developments and get in touch with their local MP to demand that their children be ALWAYS taught by qualified staff and that education is too important to suffer budget costs at the same time we are building future white elephants for London 2012.