Why Would A Government Deliberately Choose The Second Best Education System?

[Delbow]

Council-run schools still significantly out-performing academies and yet the government still wants schools to be academies and not council-run.

 

If a government wanted the best for the country it is governing, why would they choose the less effective option for giving its future adults the skills and knowledge they need?

 

Any suggestions?

[Mister M]

Ideology, pure and simple.

[fools]

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[Mister M]

2 hours ago, Delbow said:

Council-run schools still significantly out-performing academies and yet the government still wants schools to be academies and not council-run.

 

If a government wanted the best for the country it is governing, why would they choose the less effective option for giving its future adults the skills and knowledge they need?

 

Any suggestions?

Also if council run schools significantly out perform academies, it would make sense for governments to mandate those academies not performing as well to revert to being under local authority control. 

However it seems as if the process is only one way, from local authority to academies - unless there is a 2 way process.

[El Cid]

1 hour ago, Mister M said:

Also if council run schools significantly out perform academies, it would make sense for governments to mandate those academies not performing as well to revert to being under local authority control. 

However it seems as if the process is only one way, from local authority to academies - unless there is a 2 way process.

I do approve of local authority schools, perhaps many academies were once failed local authority schools, so the figures have a bias/.

[fools]

6 minutes ago, El Cid said:

perhaps many academies were once failed local authority schools, so the figures have a bias/.

a balanced view of a we've done a survey news filler

[Delbow]

48 minutes ago, El Cid said:

I do approve of local authority schools, perhaps many academies were once failed local authority schools, so the figures have a bias/.

That was the initial idea from Blair, that academies would 'transform' failing state schools, but now academisation is the norm - for example the two new schools in Sheffield had to be academies according to the DfE, and lots of schools form their own academies to avoid being forced into a big academy chain against their will. As an example, the only remaining council run secondary school in Sheffield is King Edwards, which was recently nearly forced to become an academy for reasons that were easily resolvable. So the notion that it's just the more 'difficult' schools is long busted.

 

Which brings us back to a government deliberately giving kids a worse education than they could be getting. 

[fools]

5 minutes ago, Delbow said:

Which brings us back to a

bit of clickbait to agitate the lefties?

 

here's some more "research" from your paper of choice.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/25/schools-in-england-warn-of-crisis-of-heartbreaking-rise-in-hungry-children

 

[Anna B]

4 hours ago, Delbow said:

Council-run schools still significantly out-performing academies and yet the government still wants schools to be academies and not council-run.

 

If a government wanted the best for the country it is governing, why would they choose the less effective option for giving its future adults the skills and knowledge they need?

 

Any suggestions?

State run schools can access a number of Education Authority services such as Special Educational Needs, and other Consultancies.

 

Academies being private businesses have to pay for these services out of its own pocket and they are expensive, so it 's not surprising they may well do without them or cut corners.

 

Of course in the long term this saves the government money, so they're all in favour of Academies. The Tories always want everything for the common man on the cheap.

Edited August 3, 2023 by Anna B

[Guest]

4 hours ago, fools said:

9 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas

I think that's the most sensible comment you've ever made in a post.