Start the applications process earlier [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/03/education.schools so more popular schools can build extra classrooms
Is the man mad? How does he think this could possible work in practice? And if the government DID have the resources to put into popular schools at very short notice shouldn't it be putting them into bringing underperforming schools up to scratch, so parents didn't have to make these choices in the first place? Or have we lost sight of the principle that every school that educates the nation's children ought to be a good school?