Teacher Job Protection Lottery slammed.
Children lose out in first schools lottery - Telegraph
The use of lotteries to award school places has been criticised as it emerged the first random selection scheme resulted in fewer children getting places at their preferred secondary this year.
Teachers' leaders said the idea that parents could choose between the best state schools was a myth.
John Dunford, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "People regard themselves as having an equal chance of getting into the best schools under this system, so they are willing to chance their arm.
'That clearly is not the case. The more you talk about 'choice' when it comes to school admissions, the more people will try to exercise that choice and the more they will be disappointed."
A Government-funded report by Sheffield Hallam University - published earlier this year - backed the use of admissions lotteries, saying they could "make access to popular schools fairer".
These lotteries have one purpose only, not to improve fairness, not to help pupils but to protect the staff at the less good schools from the rigours of parental choice. If I had to choose who supplied me with potatoes by lottery do you think quality, service and prices would improve? The only fair way to give parental choice and help pupils is to give parents full free choice backed with vouchers. If good schools get too many applicants, well as businesses let them sort it out; and if the bog standard don't get enough, ditto.