Re: HGHS V Hazel Grove Academy
1st August 2012 at 4:59PM
What i mean Oliver is this:
As certain schools will have access to funding outside of their state funding they will utilise that facility. This will enhance that school and make it more desirable to potential students, sounds ok so far?
Ok, heres my issue, depending on location of the school funding will be less easy to come by, this school will lag behind and will be punished for poor results etc as the well funded school cherry picks the best students, hmm, starting to sound a little more worrying now.
Eventually the schools with access to solid private funding will thrive (you never know HGHS could be one of these), the best teachers will want to work in the best schools for the best pay and best working environment, the others will fall into oblivion.
To me this is starting to sound like a national disaster. It will destroy areas completely and create a huge educational divide that will take us back to the turn of the 20th century.
You may think i am exaggerating this point, you may think that if a lot of schools become self-funding then there is more in the education budget to help the poorer schools - i for one do not believe this will be the case, that money will be directed elesewhere. Many childrens educational right will be lost, a lost generation of children, 100 times worse than what we have now.
I could labour on more about what i think the overall affect will be but i think you get my jist.
I was however extremely angry with Big Teds claim of success after 4 months, i am still spitting