Peter Weir is a minister who has managed the almost impossible task of uniting all sections of society in Northern Ireland against him, and has once again shown he is a man not up to making difficult decisions.
While I'm sure he's an affable enough bloke, his tenure as minister has been nothing short of disastrous.
When we first started hearing rumblings about the coronavirus, it seemed initially like a health story, albeit a huge health story.
However, it quickly became clear that this went beyond that to every section of our lives.
Getting education right throughout this time was every bit as key as ensuring there were enough hospital beds, because the children of 2020/21 are going to be the generation who are left to rebuild and repair the future damage this crisis has caused.
Decisions as to when to close schools, when to reopen them, how to facilitate online learning, ensuring safety of vulnerable children, making sure staff needed on the front line had access to childcare usually provided by the school day, keeping teachers, assistants and other school staff safe while keeping schools open for as long as possible, was a delicate balancing act that required decisions made with urgency and bravery.
The dithering of Minister Weir has been frustrating to watch and damaging to the confidence of parents and pupils.
The fiasco last year in relation to the GCSE and A Level results was a steep learning curve for all the devolved regions.
Being hit with such big decision in the early days of the pandemic resulted in mistakes being made, understandably so.
However, to still be making the same mistakes almost a year later is inexcusable.
Concerns have been raised by teachers and parents about the viability of the transfer test for months now.
Yet Peter Weir continually refused to budge, maintaining the tests would go ahead, until four days before the first exam was due to take place.
The late Martin McGuinness announced the end of the 11-plus in 2002, it was a unilateral decision that was made without the backing of the executive at the time or the support of the powerful grammar school lobby.
My experience of the 11-plus is different to many but also not unique. I passed despite being at an economic disadvantage, living during a time of systemic discrimination of the nationalist community in almost all aspects of life meant an education provided the only chance of being treated fairly.
The fact that one unfair selection system helped me battle against an unfair political system is not something that we should be aspiring to in 2021.
But what replaced the 11-plus was much worse in terms of singling out children with no access to expensive tutoring and online learning tools. It was more stressful, having to travel to sit the exam in unfamiliar surroundings.
If this time leaves any positive legacy then it should be the scrapping of the transfer test and a fairer way to stream our children to make sure they reach their full potential.
And this is where my views on academic selection differ from some who want it scrapped completely.
The English comprehensive system failed poorer children in a much more dramatic way that the 11-plus ever did. It pushed up house prices around desirable schools, children were not all schooled together, the tradition of fee charging schools ensures affluence buys privilege and the gap between rich and poor is huge.
When we say all children are equal that should be true but isn't, by virtue of a postcode lottery of birth thousands of children are at a disadvantage in life before they take their first breath.
Fixing that should have come before scrapping selection and attempting to create a utopian system with no pre planning or infrastructure.
As any teacher or parent with more than one child will tell you, they are not all the same.
They have different strengths, different talents, different passions, different aspirations, they like different clothes, different music, different food, some are extrovert, some introvert, some like art others like maths, some like football, others excel at science.
At post primary age it is impossible to know what subjects a child is going to love, what subjects they'll constantly ace and what ones they'll struggle with.
Most parents will send their child to the school where they think they will do best, both in terms of their education and their happiness - that's it, that's the bottom line.
It doesn't need to be a school with a fancy wool blazer that requires an entrance exam, but it does need to be one that values their child's education and isn't just used to fulfil a legal requirement until they're old enough to be kicked out in the world with limited options.
The transfer test needs scrapped, but that must be done in conjunction with an overhaul of our system of post primary education so we're not making the problem worse instead of better.
And let's be honest, that's not going to happen under Peter Weir's watch.
