Matt Buck's Hack Cartoons

The Times Educational Supplement is reporting this week that schools are being asked to get all their pupis to fill in a personal qestionnaire on the behaviour of their parents. I'm reproducing the intro to the frontpage story below - and also the cartoon I was asked to draw about it.

> Heads shun ‘Big Brother’ Ofsted survey asking 10-year-olds if they get drunk and if mum works.
Pupils as young as 10 are being asked personal questions, including how often they get drunk and whether their parents have paid jobs, in an Ofsted survey.
The education watchdog has told teachers they do not need parental permission before children complete the online questionnaire because it is anonymous.
But pupils are being asked for their full home postcode.

Anyone else find this slightly worrying? Ofsted are supposed to be an educational standards board - not an arm of social services.

I had the good luck to illustrate a column by David Sherlock, the chief inspector of the Adult Learning Inspectorate. His point was about the importance of difference;

"success in globalised economies lies in difference, not in following the standardised herd.

I have heard a German admiringly call the British "genius bodgers". He meant 'creative, anarchic, original, disputational, inventive and amiably odd'. If we want to develop a successful skills strategy, one that will hold our place in the world's financial big league, those are the things that will have to be its foundation."

He's talking my language - and it made drawing the picture a pleasure too.