Perhaps this is a kinder way of saving this arrogant woman from going down in history as the person who took the best working model for education in Great Britain and destroyed it – for nothing more than satisfying her own political agenda as laid down by the former Sinn Fein Education Minister Martin McGuinness – to destroy the grammar school system in Northern Ireland.

“The people do not want academic selection in the Grammar Schools…” says this woman who educates her own daughter in a Catholic Grammar school south of the border.

Well yes they bloody well do Ms Ruane!

This is why parents have taken up in droves the selection tests put down by the grammar schools to replace the 11+ exam that Ms Ruane took away from the children of Northern Ireland. She believes that selection for grammar school should be based on whether or not the parents are welfare recipients or not – and is basing this criteria also on those who receive free school dinners and those who do not. ‘To make it fairer for all…’

Grammar school education should be there for those whose children are up to the standard, no matter whether they work or collect the dole. It should be the children’s academic ability that qualifies them NOT their parent’s financial circumstances; if people like Ms Ruane find this “unfair” for some stupid reason then tough titties.

Ms Ruane is intent on closing all Catholic Grammar schools by 2012 – but after her own child has safely attended one of course…but let’s hope that this destructive and arrogant woman has disappeared from Northern Ireland politics completely by then.