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Monday, April 16, 2012

Why secret Charter Schools are dangerous

Why has a political party like ACT with a mere 1.06% of the vote been allowed to have one of their most extreme right wing policies like Charter Schools adopted as a main policy for the entire country especially when the evidence is now overwhelming that this ideological experiment is detrimental in every way... Study slams charter schools as harmful
A group of education experts at Massey University has investigated similar models to the proposed charter schools - Sweden's "free schools", England's "academies", and privatised schools in the United States.

Convener Professor Emeritus Ivan Snook said the group used similar sources of evidence to the Government but came to different conclusions.

"The evidence is clear that charter schools have the potential to cause harm to the very groups of students they are supposed to help," he said.


...but the real insult to injury here is that the entire Charter School fiasco is top secret, we will never know how much we are giving private companies public education money and there is no way to measure any actual success, as the ever brilliant Gordon Campbell points out...

Supposedly, the big advantage of public/private partnerships is that they will bring the alleged efficiencies of the private sector to projects that involve public money – but here’s the catch. In the PPP deal on education announced yesterday, we’re not going to be allowed to know whether that’s true, because the government has decided the details of the deal are too “commercially sensitive” to be released.

As a result, the public will be left underwriting a process whereby private companies extract profits from the education sector, while being given little or no information about what deal (and safeguards) that government has negotiated behind closed doors. Instead, we are being required to take on faith the fulsome assurances by Associate Education Minister Craig Foss that it’s a really, really good deal.


...so the whole thing is a secret and we just need to go on the trust of Craig Foss??? Charter Schools are not about better educational achievements for our children, they are an ideological attack on public education that guts budgets in the short term while damaging the overall educational environment.

Why we are allowing this right wing perversion to erode one of the best public education systems in the world is almost as difficult to answer as why a right wing homophobic bigot like John Banks is any where near the education portfolio.

Here is what our Associate Minister of Education had to say during the election...

"If we continue the bankrupt response of just paying young Polynesian, young Maori men in south Auckland the dole to sit in front of TV, smoke marijuana, watch pornography and plan more drug offending and more burglaries, then we’re going to have them coming through our windows".

...since when was education supposed to be a hate crime? Allowing this bigot to lead something as questionable as Charter Schools is a recipe for disaster, what's the bet the sleepy hobbits will be the first to rise up on their hind legs and bitch about the harvest from this sour crop once it gets served?

Who knew a multi-millionaire vacant aspiration smile and wave Prime Minister could get away with so much?

We are a nation of 40 million sheep and 4 million can vote.

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4 Comments:

At 16/4/12 10:21 am, Blogger Dave Kennedy said...

The changes to education are just ideological attacks designed to limit the influence of strong teacher unions and are nothing to do with improving educational outcomes. http://localbodies-bsprout.blogspot.co.nz/2011/12/government-attacks-new-zealands-highest.html

 
At 16/4/12 6:01 pm, Blogger CosmicRocketCultivator said...

Dear god.../hptt/forward slash.backward slash. When does the madness end? Well,my son. That all depends on when you stop bleating like a sheep and start screaming out loud at the total perversion that is politics. We live on this planet as a whole and the fools in power still don't have a clue.What can we do? Well,my son. This is what you have allowed to happen.Okay,see you tomorrow.

 
At 16/4/12 9:42 pm, Blogger Tim said...

W(h)anganui Collefiate FFS! AS though it's still what it once was.
And there go a load of Nats propping it up (or trying to) as though its a ticket to their not being considered a party of philistines.
I'm left wondering why thqt ponce Chris Dimlayson still sthinks his colleagues 'aspire' to the same values he does.
There are a load of Trad Nats that must be rolling in their graves!
Jenny Shifty was bad enough as was Root Richardson.
FFS, there's a leopardskin Bennet - sits right next to Dimlayson. Must be his fag hag - hard to know what else could explain it all

 
At 17/4/12 5:47 am, Blogger frances jane said...

I think it's time to remember that our very brains are under attack from the the effects of a maceducation

 

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