The voiced experience of one head of a primary school came across as the representative stance of a number of heads:
The central authority has to understand that the college structure does not function in a vacuum. We cannot have the DQSE, through the education officer for music, taking a unilateral decision to have the children taking music to buy a flute without considering whether their parents can afford it. Or start the scholastic year without a syllabus and telling the heads to work with what they have.