With so much competition for places at schools parents are increasingly looking for signs of a good school or to know how to avoid a bad school. The government decided to make this easier by carrying out regular inspections of schools to ensure they are up to the standards expected and also so that they can assign culpability somewhere other than their own office.

School inspections have become so important for schools that often the classes that are taught during inspection time have already been taught to ensure students look better educated than they actually are. These inspections have made a mockery of the school system as schools which work hard to turn miscreants and wild children into socially adept human beings are punished even though the teachers are often working much harder than at schools unaffected by these issues.

Inspection of the success of teaching methods has also changed the entire philosophy of schools as teachers are now purely tested on their results and this has led to a results driven learning experience for children. Instead of learning to understand thought processes and concepts, children are simply spoon fed information with no real idea on how to apply this in the real world. Children are now subjected to testing every year and between the ages of 15-18 will undertake public examinations at the end of every year putting unnecessary pressure on their development as young adults.

Inspections were designed originally to help children to ensure that they were receiving the right amount of care and attention and a proper education. Over the years the reliance on inspection scores and the consequences for teachers and head teachers has led to a degrading of basic teaching philosophies so that individuality is more easily crushed by an oppressive system of rote learning and conformist literature.