Kia-ora
If the aims of National/ACT’s education policy were, genuinely, to to
improve the learning, education and career choices for our children,
including the ones that are failing at present, they would not be
following policies which have signally failed to achieve any of these
goals, anywhere else they have been tried.
When you realise the real results of the polices that National, and
ACT, want to introduce in other countries, you begin to see the real
aims.
A two tier education system.
One tier, of private schools, entrenching wealth and privilege.
http://www.toomuchonline.org/tmweekly.html
“jobs
today — “particularly the most lucrative” — have become, they add,
“available almost exclusively to young people from wealthy backgrounds.
One example: In the UK, only 7 percent of children attend private
schools. But two-thirds of the nation’s doctors have been privately
educated”.
National are even more cheeky. They still want us to fund their
spoilt brats privileged education, while they cut funding to our
children..
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/9601664/School-gets-aid-despite-assets-worth-millions
Tier two. “Education factories” designed to teach the minimum, while making profits for private owners.
A tier, of cheap, production line, “education” in conformity, and
the minimum required for working in dead end jobs. Unthinking cannon
fodder for poor employers. The Teaching of critical and independent
thought to be removed as far as possible. (So the accumulation of wealth
by a few non working bludgers, and their spoilt offspring, is
unquestioned). Reading, writing and arithmetic. (National standards).
Of course, the destruction of Teachers collective voice, the unions,
is needed, to remove opposition to dumbing down and “privatising”
education..
The bribing of compliant “executive Teachers” that conform to National’s
“vision” of education is, of course, designed to help the true aims.
Hostage Taking in The Classroom
https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/education-hostage/17cceda6b3d44b20031f5583a3c40e5d0c630f30/
“The
commercial application of this extortion scheme is straightforward. In
shock-doctrine-like fashion, the corporate community that typically
lobbies against higher taxes to fund schools makes a business
opportunity out of schools’ subsequent budget crises”.
“Ultimately,
the public is removed from its own public education system and faraway
moguls turn education policy into their ideological plaything,
consequences be damned. Worst of all, the hostages are left to suffer –
and have no hope of ever being released”.
When you see that the goal is to commercialise public education,
regardless of education quality, and entrench the privileged, wealthy
“class”, the seeming ineptitude and incompetence in “improving”
“education” from National and ACT, makes sense.
Also Published in The standard.
