@marjolica

Yes, I agree on your second point, it is a long(er) term problem.... but on your first point, there's plenty of price gradient in #privateschools.... around 7% of the age cohort attend private schools & many parents sacrifice a lot to get them in there - this is the market the #Tories are trying to stoke, not necessarily the elite providers (i.e. Eton etc.) but the more regular (and frankly often not very good) cheaper non-state alternatives

How do you throw the state school system into further chaos, if you are a Govt. that works hand-in-glove with #privateschools who want to 'encourage' more people to think they'll need to try to get their children into one (thereby stoking competition for places & thereby underpinning further fee rises)?

You declare 104 #Schools to have dangerous buildings that cannot be used, just a few days before the school year starts...

The concerns about the buildings is legitimate, the time not so much!

New Yorker: “The Preparatory School,” by Hebe Uhart https://www.newyorker.com/books/flash-fiction/the-preparatory-school-hebe-uhart #NewYorker #Books/FlashFiction #PrivateSchools #LatinLanguage #BuenosAires #Teachers #Fear

Its clear that #education in the UK is in a multifaceted crisis, ranging from staff-overload to pupil non-attendance, from regionally unequal resources to the shadow of the #pandemic... but what remains constant is the #tories inability (and unwillingness) to actually to do anything about it.

As long as their children's #privateschools continue to prosper the Govt. is effectively ambivalent about the rest of the country's school kids;

its a national disgrace!
#GTTO
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/aug/27/children-without-a-bed-arent-going-to-be-interested-in-school-can-britains-north-south-education-divide-be-repaired

The Battle Over a ‘#Catholic #PublicSchool’ in #Oklahoma
https://flip.it/OSMyGn
#separationofChurchandState #SOCAS #charterschools #privateschools #religion #theocracy #religiousschools

Wow…😳…grifters gonna grift!

Using public funds to market #school #vouchers is a stunning misuse of NC taxpayer dollars | Opinion - The Herald-Sun https://apple.news/AtSDtVlVkTUuoEry4jmHlkw
#northcarolina #privateschools #education

My article in this week's Glen Innes Examiner looks at the #rort that is #PublicFunding of #PrivateSchools and the ongoing short changing of #PublicEducation

Public schools are struggling as St Posho’s builds wellness centres with taxpayer money. It’s wrong and unfair.

Excellent opinion piece by @vanbadham

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/22/public-schools-are-struggling-as-st-poshos-builds-wellness-centres-with-taxpayer-money-its-wrong-and-unfair
#PublicSchools #PrivateSchools #Funding #ProudToBePublic

#auspol #PrivateSchools #Funding

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Private school funding increased twice as much as public schools’ in decade after Gonski, data shows | Australian education | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/17/gonski-review-government-funding-private-public-schools

CHILDREN ARE A BATTLEGROUND

'Disgraceful': GOP Advances Bill That Could Remove 220,000 Teachers From Classrooms

https://www.commondreams.org/news/republican-education-cuts

"If left to their own devices, Republicans would gleefully take public education to the graveyard," said Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro.

#politicizingeducation #privatization #greed #profit #collusion #privateschools #starvethebeast #underfunding #childabuse #capitalism #elitepower

The IFS suggests that any change in the tax/charity status of #privateschools (thereby changing their likely economic model & raising pupil fees) would be unlikely to have any major impact on the number of pupils attending these schools!

If so, this confirms taxpayers have been subsidising #privateschools' client families rather than supporting charitable works (given private schools' claims to charitable work is tenuous at best).

Lets hope Labour in power *does* change the Schools' status!

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/in-southern-towns-segregation-academies-are-still-going-strong/266207/

In Southern Towns, '#Segregation Academies' Are Still Going Strong
In the 1960s and '70s, towns across the #South created inexpensive #privateschools to keep white students from having to mix with black. Many remain open, the communities around them as divided as ever.

Boris Johnson's Rise and Fall Has Perfectly Exposed Britain's Broken Political Culture – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/06/10/boris-johnson-rise-and-fall-has-perfectly-exposed-britains-broken-political-culture/

#Johnson
#UKPolitics
#PoliticalCulture
#Brexit
#BritishPoliticalSystem
#BritishPolitics
#Classism
#ClassDeference
#PublicSchools
#PrivateSchools
#PrivateSchool
#Press
#Access
#Patronage
#Media
#ReesMogg
#Dorries
#DowningStreet
#HonoursList
#PrivilegesCommittee
#BBC
#DailyMail

Bravo #victoria #vicpol They are very high-fee elite schools, and therefore they're in a very different position, and they have now a #tax treatment that recognises their profitability.
Government #schools have been paying payroll tax as part of their contribution, and the time is now for us to ask the most wealthiest #privateschools in the state to do the same thing, and to step up #socialismfortherich #capitalismforthepoor #payyourtax

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-27/victoria-state-budget-independent-schools-payroll-tax/102399496

No shit, Sherlock!
Going to private school makes you twice as likely to vote Tory, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/apr/08/going-to-private-school-makes-you-twice-as-likely-to-vote-tory-study-finds
#PrivateSchools #Tories

Montgomery Charter School is a CASE STUDY in Privatization Problems

https://youtu.be/_kaNG22NxXY

#news #politics #uspolitics #thevalleylaborreport #charterschools #privateschools

Betsy DeVos put millions behind candidates with a goal: Public money for private schools - NBC News

https://apple.news/A3bVS74MrQWmjVLGPnFE_VQ.

#education #taxtherich #betsydevos #privateschools #publicmoney #richwantyourmoney #education #publiceducation #oligarchy #RulingClasses

Punishment
Strikes and kicks
Barbaric, absurd
Bans proposed in response
Wrongful

#corporalpunishment #newyork #privateschools #hasidicjewish #cinquain #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/nyregion/hasidic-schools-ny-lawmakers-corporal-punishment.html

@eddyjokovich In my area of Melbourne, three of the strongest govt schools, all with waiting lists at yr7, are without staff to teach to VCE. They need (between them) 3 English teachers, 1 music teacher, 1 Tech teacher, 2 French teachers and a Wellbeing coordinator.

If good schools can't recruit,  how are struggling or rural schools managing? It appears PRIVATE schools are creaming of staff by offering $10k pa more than Govt schools can. Yet again private education is damaging Govt schools.

When will this farce stop? Private schools have no right taking money,  staff and resources from the govt sector.
#Australia #aeu #privateschools #australiantradeunions #teachers #auspol​

@radicalxstitch I'm so sorry kids are having to deal with "Your child's VCE depends on staff available to run courses. FAR FAR MORE than covid, this affects the subject choices they are making & ultimately the career pathways they will/won't be able to choose.

**The govt needs to get onto this as a matter of urgency.**

You can tell by birth rate how many kids you will have entering secondary schools 12 yrs later. They know what the school capacity will be in 12 yrs time & how many staff will be needed.

They also know that ppl like me in mid-60s will be retiring & need replacing.

What they *aren't* doing is providing the money for resources and salaries to make young Grad Teachers stay in the profession.

Way too many are staying 5yrs and then leaving.
They cite: long working hours, large classes, no time for planning, assessing and reviewing, not enough mentoring or time to be supported by more experienced colleague/s, all the above = Burn Out. So they leave for better paid jobs in diff career areas.

Plus, Yr12 students aren't studying English Maths Langs Sciences and choosing to be a teacher with those degrees. There aren't students training into B.Ed in those subjects.

The Govt needs to realise this is a ticking time bomb & they need to fund schools in the govt system massively more.
For a struggling school and newly qualified teachers it DEFINITELY comes down to $$$$. Too much is going to private schools.
#AEU #auspol #teachers #privateschools #austeacher