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Dear friends, what is going on here? Amendments 198 and 199 are trying to say, “Don’t use a sledgehammer to crack a walnut”. What matters is that all our schools must not only impart knowledge but draw knowledge out of their pupils. Certainly, Amendment 230 is saying, “There is a middle way. Don’t just go in one direction”. I support the noble Baroness, Lady Morris, who says that some schools may not be doing well for a short period but are trying to come out of it—but what do we do? We shut them down, while those that are thriving, because of a failure somewhere else, have to take more and more pupils but without more resources.