Some minister has talked about ‘moving on’ the one incompetent teacher, said to be working in each school (Curtis P Every school has at least one bad teacher, says minister. Guardian 27th May 2008: 10. How long can it be before they are talking about the ‘social justice issue’ that loads of staff in the public sector are not among the ‘best-performing’, including people in health and social care. But what does it mean? That these people are irremediably hopeless? Or square hole and round peg sufferers? Or that they are just a bit less good than others? Or the policy that guides what they are supposed to do doesn’t fit with what they think is important? Does that mean they are not entitled to any contribution to judging what is important? Or are they being blamed for the problems of struggling on in an under-funded system? Or are they depressed and jaundiced by the constant assumption that only the public sector employs all these hopeless people? Why not have a look at the incompetent shambles that many private companies make of serving the public?