Not that I disagree with your overall point, but it's worth noting that in this case it wasn't enforced top-down: > Even more puzzling is the way the system wa

Not that I disagree with your overall point, but it's worth noting that in this case it wasn't enforced top-down: > Even more puzzling is the way the system was rolled out. ITA was never adopted nationally, nor required. As Stainthorp explains: “At that time, there was no national curriculum – a headteacher could simply decide to implement it in their school, or a teacher in their class. There was no consistency.”