The standard explanations for this decline are all unsatisfactory.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

He said Estyn had found the authority's performance to be "unsatisfactory" because "at all key stages, standards for learners are unsatisfactory, exclusion rates are too high, too many young people are not in education, employment or training, and attendance rates in primary schools are unacceptably low".

BBC: Empty classroom

Tokyo, after all, has tried them all before with generally unsatisfactory results.

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