What's hatching? - personal needs

I am in nursery teaching, and I'm angry. Why on earth have we been spending so much time, effort and money turning our education system into a form of intensive farming? Our schools are like battery farms, in which we are force-feeding our chickens (otherwise known as children) into producing more and more identical and hugely marketable eggs (otherwise known as the 'results'). The trouble is, when the eggs are opened and examined closely, the contents are not too wonderful. They are poor quality, tasteless, colourless, and of limited nutritional value and sometimes they are even dangerous.

Why do we want children to turn out all the same? Spouting the same information, with the same limited horizons? Why are we not honest about what has been going wrong for years in our schools? We should be looking first at our social evolution and addressing the actual problems that we have created for our children. Mr Blunkett, Ofsted and others should be looking into the home, where education must necessarily start.
The Early Learning Goals document may well be attractive and packed full of jolly good, somewhat patronising examples of what can be done with dear little groups of three- to five-year-olds. But life for these children just is not like that not in real nurseries, in real cities, day in day out.