There are many arguments out there against private schools, but I believe this one takes the cake.
Apparently, the credit crunch has caused parents of private school kids to want government school for their kids. This has apparently caused big problems for the government planners, which “is not fair” to any of the kids, and so – the argument goes – private schools should be banned to make life easy for government planners.
Ah…The Guardian’s “comment is free”. An empty headed useful-idiot circle jerk at the best of times…
Every attempted argument has now been made. End of Internet.
“State schools are not a safety net”
Really??! I thought their whole idea for government funded schools was as a safety net for those they claim cannot pay for their child’s education! Just because these people now wanting to use the safety net are middle class, it seems a little hypocritical to get bitchy about it.
“State schools miss out on the exam results of high-achieving pupils and lose out on per-head funding”
If they believe the smarter kids are going to private schools, and private school kids are moving back to the state school, shouldn’t this bump up exam averages and per-head funding?(unless by some miracle state schools also have low scores because they have shitty education!)
“Why should those who have opted to pay for their children’s schooling suddenly get to muscle back into the free provision, creating sudden high levels of demand that the state sector is ill-equipped to cope with?”
If they don’t have the money to deal with the amount of students that the funding should’ve been more than able to accomodate in the first place, what the hell are state schools doing with their money??(rhetorical question)
Just…wow. As if students were just there to rake in funding for the school and make it look good.
So, it’s unfair that parents who can no longer afford private school because they were forced to fork over money to send their children to public school, want to send their children to public school? How dare they inconvenience their overlords by expecting to get what they paid for!
This is beyond ridiculous.
No one should ever be able to go to a private restaurant…all food shall be served by the government.
I have a better idea: ban public schools. [;)]
I do not even remember what I read because it was so nonsensical.
we should ban the private sector in general. When all those people become unemployed in a recession, they turn to the government for a safety net.