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The launch, the crash and the recovery of My School : Comments
By Chris Bonnor, published 1/2/2010When you get into the business of comparing schools, with all this entails, there can be little margin for error - too much is at stake.
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Easy.
Howard undid the rules about 'school placing' and encouraged new schools, knowing they would be faith schools.
This bought the loyalty of hordes of voters, although probably didn't change too many votes... that is only a guess though.
The rash of faith schools helped to build the 'values' base Howard created from 1995, pre election.
The moaning about public school 'values' was run in tandem with the the 'values' debate.
Parents, too stupid to demand better performance for their taxes in public schools, bought an easy way out- so-called 'private' schools.
Education is a commodity in our society. Buying an education absolves parents from any responsibility in what goes on in schools... they've paid for it, it must be good.
But few of these people are real 'believers'. Interesting to see how badly the low rent faith schools are placed in this area. Will parents be demanding their money back I wonder?
Anyway, 'private' schools are filling because of fear, and laziness.
Having to pay fees also allows both parents to work flat out and feel good about doing it to buy their kiddies a 'chance in life', while at the same time moaning about having to pay 'a great big tax', or any tax at all for that matter.... while not thinking twice about the 'tax' nature of school fees.
How stupid can you be?