What does anyone expect?

This amuses more than anything else:

Teaching unions have criticised a “politically motivated” review of the way sex education is taught in schools, after Conservative MPs voiced concern that children were being exposed to “graphic” material including “lessons on oral sex”.

This is not to comment upon how sex is taught in schools nor what is age appropriate. Of course we have views on that but that’s not the point to be made here.

The education budget is getting on for £60 billion a year at the moment. That’s £60 billion lifted from the populace - by politics - and allocated to education - by politics - and therefore there is politics involved in what is done with it.

How could it be anything else but politically involved? All discussions of what is taught in taxpayer funded schools is going to be politically motivated simply because we’ve put the entire school system into the hands of politics.

It is, obviously, possible to have entirely non-political schools. Those are going to be the ones that don’t take money from the political process. That is, not-state schools.

This applies across all areas of life of course. It’s also blindingly obvious. If politics provides the funding then politics is going to be deeply involved in how it is spent. The only way to have a part of life not subject to “politically motivated review” is to have a part of life that is not funded by the state and politics.

Seriously, what do people expect? That everyone’s going to chip in the thick end of a hundred billion quid and not ask for some oversight in return?

An alternative formulation of the point is that fine, you think this is an area of life that shouldn't be touched, determined or reviewed by politics. Fine, have at it - the only way you’ll get that is by not funding it through politics.