The Logical Outcome of Tory Education Reforms June 25, 2012
Posted by Garibaldy in United States.trackback
Tory education reforms stress handing over control of schools to those willing to fund them, and freedom for schools to teach what they want. Is this where we’re heading?
Speaking of those willing to fund schools, a story on RTE’s Morning Ireland today about a TD who is stepping in to fund a replacement teacher in a small Kerry netional school which had its allocation cut from 3 teachers to 2 due to the cutbacks. No doubt this will be paraded as a generous and decent act by some, and as a cynical vote catcher by others, but the principle remains that state provision of education as a human right is being eroded to become an act of charity. And of course the replacement teacher won’t have the same employment contract as the teacher who was cut. Nasty stuff.