Opinion: Academies, the dismantling of our state education
system?  Guest blogger and Leeds schools campaigner Victoria
Jaquiss looks at the increasing role academies play in education
and asks: Are teachers the new miners? primrose high school
protest leeds Pupils protest at Primrose High School in March.
The school could be closed and turned into an academy
Photograph: John Baron/guardian.co.uk  Chapter One: What is an
Academy and how does it manifest itself?  An academy is a
school, with a pretentious title. Full-stop.  No, make that a
comma. It's a school, with a pretentious title, and with a bit
more money to play around with than other schools.  Academies
aren't really anything. They have no vision or educational
philosophy. This makes fighting the introduction of academies
into the educational world like fighting jelly.  The previous
("Labour") government thought they would like to replace
"failing" schools with academies. So just in the neighbourhoods
where children were most vulnerable, and most in n