Some children are getting an excellent education and that is unfair, so all children must get a poor education. This why they are tightening the National Curriculum, attacking home-schooling, ending Academies and reversing all the reforms that saw England’s (not devolved Wales or Scotland’s schools) schools start to climb the PISA rankings.
Yes, I completely agree that's what it is for all those reasons, although I don't really recognise (1) given the superb performance of many state schools.
Philistine doesn't give a stuff about the harm to independent schools or the (at best) piddling amount of revenue or the (at worst) trashing of kids and jobs. It's all "in the greater good" and there's no amount of collateral damage that would stop her. Meanwhile it's noise that distracts from the enormous harm she's determined to do to state education itself via the outrageous SEN strategy, the Becky Francis curriculum, and the erosion of free schools and academy independence.
However this debate on the bad economics is still worth having. The government's stated objectives remain: to raise money and help state schools. We need to peel back the bad economics (it won't raise money, it will hurt state schools, and there are other unexplored consequences that are terrible for growth). Making this case is what reveals the gruesome truths you outline.
Some children are getting an excellent education and that is unfair, so all children must get a poor education. This why they are tightening the National Curriculum, attacking home-schooling, ending Academies and reversing all the reforms that saw England’s (not devolved Wales or Scotland’s schools) schools start to climb the PISA rankings.
Hi,
What if all this chat is just a screen to further reduce the amount of private education? I wonder what the reasons might be?
1) A sense that we should all be in this together
2) A sense that some people are cheating the system and we'll have 'em.
3) Lets stop private schools showing how bad public education has become.
4) Lets stop private schools and Free Schools showing how much worse public education can become.
I refer you to Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy. The education Bureaucracy is worried about being annoyingly easy to compare.
Yes, I completely agree that's what it is for all those reasons, although I don't really recognise (1) given the superb performance of many state schools.
Philistine doesn't give a stuff about the harm to independent schools or the (at best) piddling amount of revenue or the (at worst) trashing of kids and jobs. It's all "in the greater good" and there's no amount of collateral damage that would stop her. Meanwhile it's noise that distracts from the enormous harm she's determined to do to state education itself via the outrageous SEN strategy, the Becky Francis curriculum, and the erosion of free schools and academy independence.
However this debate on the bad economics is still worth having. The government's stated objectives remain: to raise money and help state schools. We need to peel back the bad economics (it won't raise money, it will hurt state schools, and there are other unexplored consequences that are terrible for growth). Making this case is what reveals the gruesome truths you outline.