Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Can anyone explain how this idea is meant to work? The concept of competition in secondary education just makes no sense to me.
I guess what I'd like is a worked example of what happens in terms of funding etc if you have an area with N schools providing places for the P pupils and a coalition of parents or a private company or whatever decides to set up a new school or five.
Also, why is it always taken as a given that moving schools out of local government control is neccessarily a good thing? How often do the teachers on here find themselves thinking, "damned local government, if only I was under central control I'd be able to do X, Y and Z"? Why not just change the way that local government handles education, if it really does cause problems?
I guess what I'd like is a worked example of what happens in terms of funding etc if you have an area with N schools providing places for the P pupils and a coalition of parents or a private company or whatever decides to set up a new school or five.
Also, why is it always taken as a given that moving schools out of local government control is neccessarily a good thing? How often do the teachers on here find themselves thinking, "damned local government, if only I was under central control I'd be able to do X, Y and Z"? Why not just change the way that local government handles education, if it really does cause problems?