“When the chips are down, are you prepared to do whatever it takes so our children get the best possible deal?”

“We want to avoid plucking solutions out of the air that aren’t evidence-based”

“I think we’ve designed the school around the disadvantaged child”

“ It’s about developing the future generation into making a different society”

“We will guard our independence jealously”

“I don’t want to be saying about schools that they’re doing the wrong thing”

“I know what it’s like to have that fear in the pit of your stomach”