My daughter is a long way off secondary, not even at primary yet but it is already abundantly clear that she adores music and dance - any school that fails to understand how important the arts are in turning out well rounded, and happy, people gets a big thumbs down from me. I dread the notion that we are training our children to be automatons.

that said - nothing wrong with a one way system - my secondary school introduced it (all of 20 something years ago) and it made a big difference to congestion moving from class to class.

It also, perhaps oddly, had the effect of curbing some elements of bullying - no more deliberate barging of people coming in the opposite direction (and this was an all girls school)...