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Disastrous Conservative Plans for local schools.
Posted By: William Hobhouse
Date Posted: 15/02/2010
The Conservatives nationally have announced plans to set up Swedish-style “free schools”. These will be schools funded and managed outside local control. However, their overall plan to cut the education budget means their ability to establish new schools will inevitably depend on raiding the budgets of existing schools. Proposals like these just rob Peter to pay Paul. There are, not surprisingly, no proposals on how to improve schools that do not wish to go it alone.
On the curriculum, Conservative plans are in even more of an incoherent muddle. They plan to impose an absurdly detailed curriculum on most state-funded schools, while allowing free schools to adopt a pick-and-mix curriculum – even if this means dropping core subjects such as British history and modern languages. How that leaves specialist language colleges like Oulder Hill Community School is anyone’s guess.
It is impossible to justify in any logical way a system which imposes such centralized uniformity on 23,500 schools while allowing a small minority to teach whatever they like at the taxpayers’ expense.
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