วันเสาร์ที่ 15 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2554

The real cost of 'free' schools will be paid by the poorest | Melissa Benn

Recent experience an increase in education is useless, opaque layer of a state system and unequal

Friday, Boris Johnson, has officially have a big pair of scissors and certainly many well-chosen labels in America, when it officially opens in West London Free School. This may be a coincidence that the strategy WLFS, the idea of ??journalist Toby Young and the earth's most famous private school, is one of the last to open. But the end of a week of unprecedented publicity and largely critical of free schools, orchestrated by the government and its main allies, the new school system.

Like thousands of schools reopen for the fall semester, the media in the country was stuck in a handful of primary and secondary schools, most of which have not yet completed a week of teaching, of the offer with a bully or publish test results only. However, you may be forgiven for thinking that these 24 new businesses and the solution to all our educational problems.

While there is diversity in the model of the free school, if any strange political class to teach the soldiers subclass of wild powers of meditation for the heavy breathing. Peter Hyman, the speeches of Tony Blair became a teacher and most of the coalition to convert, however, plans to open a non-selective, all possibilities, a global innovator in the East End of London in 2012, while Sajid Hussain, the son graduated from Oxford Kashmir bus driver born, hopes his king Academy of Sciences in Bradford will help students navigate through the strange customs of the English elite.

Hussain spoke about the number of the first generation of academic performance because it believes that "there is a language club -. They can not speak the language ... there is a level that can not access it. "Hussain, I wonder what makes the media an insider as Toby Young, who has not hidden his desire to create a private school in imitation of taxpayers' money . Young wrote openly of his admiration and envy of numbers, such as Johnson and David Cameron - who met at Oxford - and hope that some of these pretentious background of self-confidence is fading with the students in his new school.

Like it or hate it

- and hate - a lot of money hit the free schools, £ 130 000 000 has been submitted and capital costs, and of course spend more than the the government has not disclosed. It is estimated that there is now a staff member for every 30 children who work in schools without success.

But despite a long diatribe this week by the Education Secretary Michael Gove, the schools have clearly failed in its own set of automated tests. Few of the first wave really helps parents and projects, and they can not benefit the poorest in our society. It is rather a strange movement, which includes hybrids do independent schools, groups of faith, charity and educational groups.

Remember: No one has voted for change. The Liberal Democratic Party fought the 2010 elections in explicit opposition to free schools and plans for the academy. Now it feels almost too late, and certainly an almighty mess. The massive influx of free schools and academies - "independent state schools" model - will add another level of unnecessary and a system too complex and irregular opaque state. It will promote a new kind of snobbery, and subtle segregation in the state sector, with ambitious parents who want to feel the effect of private school. Free Schools and academies enjoy a wide range of more freedom to help them make the advance in the competitive market for new schools.

But what if the new schools fail or grow close to the old? Will there be enough staff to discuss problems within the school to do it alone, separated from the family of local schools? What parents really want to see the channels based on faith or charity that can not be questioned, except by the Secretary of State


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