Samtidigt som vi i Sverige börjar upptäcka friskolesystemets mindre vackra sidor rusar England in i något som uppges vara inspirerat av den svenska modellen.

Läs mer i The Guardian om utförsäljningarna som ofta sker mot personalens och föräldrarnas vilja.

But now the school faces a different future. Downhills is particularly vulnerable because Gove has powers, under an act he hastened through parliament last year, to force into academy status any school that is said by Ofsted to need “special measures” or that has a notice to improve.

I artikeln skildras en skola som heter Downhill. Det är tyvärr inget skämt. Likriktningen är på riktigt.

Sarah Williams, a musician with children aged eight and 10 at Downhills, says: “I only moved them here in September, specifically because I love it here; they don’t just teach to the test.

“I thought the Conservative party was supposed to give parents choices. I have made my democratic choice, and now it is being taken away from me.”

James Redwood, whose four-year-old son, Arthur, is in reception, says: “I’m a composer, and I visit a lot of schools. This is a fantastic, happy place. It is the end of state education if they can do what they are doing to a place like this.”