Gillian Low, president of the Girls' Schools Association, has complained that private schools are losing their independence because of endless government regulation and a tick-box culture.

But of course.  The marxoid liberal elite - who detest private schools - have decided that the best way to undermine private education is to stifle it with government regulation.  A 'tick-box culture' is essential in this process precisely because it suppresses independent thought and individual initiative.  Tyrants always want sheep-like obedience.

This is what the Department of Schools says in response to this charge:

The Government is keen to support the delivery of high-quality education by schools in the private sector.

What a downright lie (but we are now inured to that from the government machine).  For 'support' read 'interfere in and undermine'.  But also note the sheer arrogance.  The bumptious bureaucrats - spouting their drivel and mischief - have nothing useful to offer private schools.  On the contrary, parents have gone private to get their children out of the clutches of these public-sector parasites. 

The Department of Schools continues:

But it is right that parents and the wider public are assured that all schools - whether in the maintained or independent sector - provide their pupils with a suitable education in a safe and secure environment.

Notice the sweeping assertion that public-sector bureaucrats - not parents - will decide what education is 'suitable' for children.  Now look at some of the ghastly sink schools that prevail in the state sector.  It is absurd to widen the responsibilities of those responsible for such monstrosities; except that this is not a rational debate.

Be under no illusion.  The marxoid liberal elite regards all children as state property who must be parented and educated in accordance with government diktat.

Notice, also, the phrase 'safe and secure environment'.  This has become a routine mantra for increasing state control over people's lives.  It contains a slimy, and deeply offensive, slur that anyone who objects to state interference is probably a paedophile.

Why do we pay these insolent 'public servants' to insult us in such a manner?  What sort of nation have we become?