To think that John Humphreys is woefully ignorant about education and really shouldn't get to talk about it the radio?

[PollyParanoia]

John Humphreys was interviewing two parents on the subject of secondary schools today and as ever seems to know amazingly little about the subject. The woman was trying to set up a school in Yorkshire (or was it Lancs - John couldn't get that right either) and called it a "high school" to which he immediately went, "oh a selective school" as if we were still in the 1950s. No, obviously not a selective school you great lump as you can't officially do that.
Generally when on the subject he always goes in with this assumption that all state schools are awful and everybody is desperate to go private if they had the money. Typical media metropolitan view that seems to do a disservice to the majority.
Rant over...

What BarryKent said. I always have to turn the Today programme off when he is on - I can't bear the sound of his pompous, ill-informed, interrupting voice.

I understood in the wider context of the intrview that he was asking her whether or not it was a selective school, in order to clarify what she was doing, i.e.

Her: "We'r trying to set up a high school."
Him: "A selective school?"
Her: "No, not a selective school."

I thought that was a fair clarification to ask her to make given the wider audience listening.

I cannot bear John Humphreys. He mistakes ignorant aggression as an incisive interviewing technique.