You can try to, but be prepared to fight through layers of bureaucracy, unions, head teachers, boards of governors, the LEA and your local MPs etc. It's not wor

You can try to, but be prepared to fight through layers of bureaucracy, unions, head teachers, boards of governors, the LEA and your local MPs etc. It's not worth it. Public sector staff in the UK are pretty untouchable unless they get done for abusing children physically. Mentally abusing them and giving them a substandard education appears to be OK at all levels... The best way to return the favor is to withdraw them from the school as people actually have to answer to that and you don't have to be involved in them having to explain themselves up their hierarchy. For reference I was a school governor for a period of time but the utter incompetence and pure self-interest other people showed forced me to resign on principle. The impression it gave me is that the entire education hierarchy, bar possibly some universities, is a place where the utterly incompetent, half-wit politicians in society can embed themselves and clamber over each other to reach a good public sector state pension. I understand there are exceptions to this and excellent teachers but they are lost in a sea of dross. Also, this has got much worse since I was at school in the 1980's so don't be skewed by your previous experiences in education.