One reason why state schools tend to fail their students
Only 18 useless teachers axed in 40 years despite '17,000 failing staff' in our schools.
From the Mail.
An organisation that does not sack some of it members has fallen under the control of the 'producer interest'. It serves its staff as a priority of serving its customers - the children.
Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Education • Waste in public services
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It's a moot point as to whether the 'customers' of education are the children or whether they are merely the 'product'. It seems to me that for too long now, the customers have been not the children, nor the parents (who have had virtually no say in what their kids are taught at school - nor in what school they are taught it) but the government of the day who treat the 'outcomes' of the schooling system (which are the numbers of 'good' GCSEs achieved, not the young people who emerge) as an indicator of their magnanimity, largesse and good governance.
True choice in education (the privilege of those who should be the customers will only come about when education is separated from the state and the word 'education' is no longer treated as synonymous with 'school' and therefore that education can ONLY take place in school.
For more on these themes see 'Education and the State: a study in political economy' by E. G. West and 'Wot, No School? how schools impede education' by Jonathan Langdale and John Harrison.
Posted by: John Harrison at July 5, 2010 11:32 AM
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It's a moot point as to whether the 'customers' of education are the children or whether they are merely the 'product'. It seems to me that for too long now, the customers have been not the children, nor the parents (who have had virtually no say in what their kids are taught at school - nor in what school they are taught it) but the government of the day who treat the 'outcomes' of the schooling system (which are the numbers of 'good' GCSEs achieved, not the young people who emerge) as an indicator of their magnanimity, largesse and good governance.
True choice in education (the privilege of those who should be the customers will only come about when education is separated from the state and the word 'education' is no longer treated as synonymous with 'school' and therefore that education can ONLY take place in school.
For more on these themes see 'Education and the State: a study in political economy' by E. G. West and 'Wot, No School? how schools impede education' by Jonathan Langdale and John Harrison.
Posted by: John Harrison at July 5, 2010 11:32 AM