My eye was caught today by the first of the government's Citizens' Juries, held at Bristol's Brunel Academy. Gordon Brown and Ed Balls were provided with a photo opportunity, going around tables of pupils and discussing, apparently, building schools for the future. It seems little different from the old "Big Conversation", except that the tax payer is funding it. I notice that £45 billion is being spent on new schools. This is all well and good. Unfortunately a glance at the web site of the new headmaster of Brunel Academy  fills one with foreboding. The trendy ideas he espouses and the vocabulary that he uses were being discredited when I first started teaching in the early 70s. Lets hope the £45 billion will not be wasted.