Ah, I wasn't against state-funded schools, Andrew, but the National Curriculum
in the UK has been self-defeating in part: it has filled the school week and
month without achieving everything that it should have done; yet it has left no
space for schools to add their own content. It's the NC that has caused the
damage.
The Catholic school to which I sent my sons (St Patrick's, in Tampa) was fully
funded by the parents, I believe. It was quite a poor school, financially, but
great in educational and pastoral terms.
I don't know what a Charter school might be, but I suspect that the UK's
Academies are similar; I share your antipathy to the ethos and to the CEO's
salary. In fact, I resent there being a CEO at all . . .
It looks as if we will soon be rid of CEO's in local government over here.
Chris
On 25 Dec 2010, at 20:59, Jan Steinman wrote:
> I think government-supported education is sorta like democracy -- the worst
> possible system, except for all the others out there!
>
> Don't get me started on how charter schools are sucking the life out of the
> public schools, while breaking the backs of teacher's unions. And damn fool
> people still hold bake sales to support them, while their CEOs earn ten times
> as much as school principals!
>
> (I realize that for-profit charter schools are very different from the
> Catholic school Chris mentioned. But it's a slippery slope when people start
> agitating for public funding for private schools, be they non-profit or not.)
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