unlawful
I'll tell you what's unlawful - the amount of money wasted on this whole farce.
Yes, lets build and improve schools and infrastructure. But what we don't need are paying for consultants, telling us what we know, or coming up with wacky ideas which won't work.
One I worked with came up with the idea of giving every pupil an iPad. He couldn't produce any figures which showed they would benefit education. he also had nothing to say when I asked who would foot the bill for repairs, or the evidence that other schools which had given their pupils netbooks had needed to take on an extra technician full time to handle repairs and warranty returns, not to mention the issues with pupils forgetting to charge them or leaving them at home.
Then we move onto the buildings. Yes, "shopping mall" style glass atriums and open plan workspaces look beautiful, but they don't work in a school. Putting aside the huge costs to heat in winter and cool in summer, you get one disruptive pupil in a classroom and its contained there. But in a open workspace *everyone* stops to watch the fun.
Then there's the open raised walkways. Again, in a shopping centre they're nice. But in a school its just a place to lean over and spit, throw bags or other rubbish on pupils below.