7 steps to open a Free School

1. Find a good pub

2. Find an area in need of a school

3. Find somewhere to be your home

(even though this part of the process is totally out of your hands and subject to ludicrous bureaucracy)

3a. Embrace the bureaucracy

4. Quit your job

5. Diversify

6. Recruit some pupils and staff

7. Hurtle towards opening

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