I’m not sure this is the flex David Seymour seems to think it is…
…well Duh! Of course there is huge demand for Charter Schools, THEY ARE A RORT!
So Private Education interests who will be able to rort the system and get more public funding at the cost of the actual public education system are rushing to get their snouts in the trough?
That’s what David is boasting?
Isn’t it finny how it’s ‘wasteful taxpayer dollars’ when it’s going on welfare, yet when it’s going to private interests who back ACT, then it’s suddenly excellent use of public money?
It’s the same intellectual hypocrisy at play with their welfare policy!
ACT is the freedom and small government party, yet their desire to micromanage what the poor can buy with their welfare is Nanny State on meth!
Micromanaging beneficiaries on what they can and can’t buy?
Why do beneficiaries require mass surveillance while gun owners get a Gun lobbyist to camouflage their interests?
Why is the small government freedom party sitting like a ghoul on the shoulders of the poor?
They now want to punish beneficiaries who have children.
That is what NZ elected, that level of spite is who we are now.
At some stage,Kiwis need to take a hard long look at themselves for the far right climate denying racist beneficiary bashing Government they elected, all because a bitter post-Covid electorate hated Jacinda for having the temerity to save 20 000 lives during a once in a century pandemic.
We have mutated into something very ugly under this new Government while the rich laugh at how easily the angry voters were manipulated into giving them what they want.
What must deeply worry the teacher’s unions is that TEN state schools (and counting) have applied for charter status. They won’t get a penny more than the state schools by doing this because they’re already set-up and in operation, but they will get the ministry of education and the union off their backs, enabling them to deliver better results for the kids.
The times, they are a-changing
I am a regular critic of the PSA but teachers unions NZEI and PPTA did a great job previously of rolling back Charters and National Standards during the sirkey and his girlfriend Parata years. It is a worry that younger teachers may not now have the institutional memory to fight this again.
Charter Schools push for profit, private capital, into state infrastructure and are essentially a union busting initiative. Handing over public property i.e. existing schools to these parasites has to be resisted. Charters appeal to some because they offer free stationery, clothing and gadgets, and will allow mobile phones to be used. International evidence shows Charters are an expensive, ineffective waste of time but neo libs (remember Roger scab Douglas “education vouchers”?) and the likes of Atlas Network just have to have them.
These are private schools are the parents paying fees of 16k a year like other private schools .No us tax payers are paying 3 times that per kid .I thought we were cutting spending ,and here we are blowing 150 million a year on these private money pits for a few people .
Who are the people who are demanding charter schools?
It isn’t parents although some will be silly enough to go along with their cult idol.
What it amounts to is, that an average of $9k/student is a wasteful use of taxpayers’ money, while $60k/student (children of already wealthy parents mostly), is not.
NACT all need to go back to school and learn some Maths themselves.
So, the demand is from people who know a cash-cow when they see one. Oh sorry, that’s Karen’s pet word.
How about this? They can see a cash-cow drinking for a trough where the gravy-train has just gone through!
That describes bottom feeders in my dictionary. Luxury Luxon still needs some English lessons, as well as Maths.
I’m pretty sure this isn’t an agenda for ACTs “gun lobby” puppet masters. You may wish to rethink that nonsense.
As someone who has their children’s teachers currently averaging 3 days a week of attendance while chastising my child for missing 3 days in a term I feel there needs to be some change. And considering that more money sunk into the public system seems to not be going anywhere at the moment I wouldn’t declare the Charter schools the absolute evil you believe.
how do you know the teachers will be any different and are you aware that they wont be using trained teachers and will be paying the minimum wage because they can .They are totally unregulated
Yes, I’m aware they won’t be using teachers who have been forced to go through teachers college no matter what previous experience they may have had. People push this untrained teachers line as if going through the training the Ministry demands guarantees a level of quality. After seeing the quality of teachera my kids have had and the teaching that students I had to train for work received I have little faith in the output of thw teacher training currently in use.
I know that it will alter the landscape from the one where my children’s primary school told us not to help our children with their math as there was only 1 way to teach it and we needed to attend training sessions to learn to teach it their way and their way only. This after telling us how every child learns differently. The same line Chipkens used before shutting down anything that possibly catered for neuro-diverse students and forced them back into a system where they are told to get in line and be exactly like everyone else. The flat out refusal of them to redistribute funds to deal with things like this are a trademark of the failed Ministry and the current state system.
Have you noticed that seymoure was lying about the truancy at schools this year .It was never as low as he said .I would think he is using figures from when we were in the pandemic .There would not be in improvement into the high 8o s just because schools have to report weekly .My local school has been at over 90% for the last year and a half on average even though we still get waves of covid and other illness .
And Luxon fails to remember that over the last 2 years or so the maths performance may well be affected for the same reason .
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