tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post4483665027866499162..comments2024-03-28T09:22:36.967+13:00Comments on Offsetting Behaviour: Learning nothing in educationEric Cramptonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15831696523324469713noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-11086521983556627622018-05-05T06:08:59.076+12:002018-05-05T06:08:59.076+12:00You are assuming that the reason for charter schoo...You are assuming that the reason for charter schools being set up was to improve education. Since that was never the real reason there was no need to evaluate them. If there was evaluation they may well have been shown to be failing, and that would never do.<br /><br />National brought them in because ACT wanted them. ACT wanted them to break up public schooling as it currently stands (and trashing the school unions along the way as a bonus). National also found them useful for burnishing their credentials with Maori. <br /><br />Rolling them out big time was never going to work, because other than Maori no-one much was going to enrol in tiny new schools trying untried techniques. ACT, dogmatic on this, never got their heads round public schools are not unpopular. If they'd pushed for old-fashioned single-sex traditional discipline schools the public would have bought in big time. (And the Ministry would have gone mental. They hate the fact that few parents like modern "progressive" education.)<br /><br />Improved education would be a useful by-product only of charter schools.<br /><br />I'd love to see a real evaluation too, but finding someone unbiased in this area is a difficult task.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14049701479076034749noreply@blogger.com