Toilet training plan is panned

28th November 2003, 12:00am

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Toilet training plan is panned

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The Diary hears that the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, which represents the heads of private schools, was looking into sponsoring a city academy, the new breed of half-public, half-private schools that the Government hopes will replace failing inner-city comprehensives.

Although some individual private schools are still eager to get involved in the scheme, the idea of the HMC itself running a school was dropped.

A contributory factor in this decision may have been the discovery that a possible partner in the new venture was none other than Armitage Shanks, the world’s most famous purveyor of toilets.

An HMC source asked: “Was this to be the first ever bog-standard independent school? After the first flush of enthusiasm, members lost interest. It was a flash in the pan.”

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