The UK is offically nuts, or WTF? Just... WTF?

Well, they had me at the title: BBC News - Schools 'should let children help pick teachers'

But only 18% of children had been involved in choosing a teacher, the survey added.

The Nasuwt teaching union said putting pupils on an interview panel undermined the authority of teachers.

The survey suggested some 87% of children feel they know what makes a good teacher.

And many of those quizzed in depth on the issue identified a number of attributes they felt were important.

Now, I also knew what makes a good teacher: Less homework, less those pesky little math problems in class and more fooling around. And I know that the Russian army in WWI was destroyed not by the Germans, but by the soldiers themselves, via electing commanders who were saying things that the troops wanted to hear.

As I see it, both army and school are environments where discipline is vital. Not that remaking schools in the image of military will do any good, mind you, but still it is vital for children to learn not only to express themselves as they see fit, but to learn to obey the rules of society.And of course it is vital for society to make it's children learn the rules while at the same time teaching them how to think. That's not the result you get while electing teachers, that's the result you get when your teachers love their work and want to teach the children everything they know.