tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post1688364392769488168..comments2024-03-28T09:22:36.967+13:00Comments on Offsetting Behaviour: Zone warsEric Cramptonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15831696523324469713noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-9429022964411768362015-02-01T12:31:58.462+13:002015-02-01T12:31:58.462+13:00We're still forgetting the people at the very ...We're still forgetting the people at the very top: Those who live in nice areas zoned for bad schools, yet avoid this entire debacle by sending their children to private secondary schools.<br /><br />My parents lived in Whitby, a nice upper class suburb of Wellington, but zoned for Aotea College, basically a terrible school for people with no hope of university. So they sent their three children to private schools 26km away in the Hutt Valley.<br /><br />This school zone squabbling hurts the pockets of the lower and middle income groups, which is why it's really a problem.A Blokenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-52932314499254069732015-02-01T11:19:42.045+13:002015-02-01T11:19:42.045+13:00The middle-class are not educated (usually). Schoo...The middle-class are not educated (usually). Schools are not education - they are memory training. More specifically, training people to memorise that which they have no interest in, which does indeed prepare them for the real world of doing other people's tedious work.<br /><br /><br />This is why the government is still able to operate its incredible monopoly on child "development". The middle-class is basically just as thick, apathetic and ingnorant as everyone else.<br /><br /><br />....more than a little off topic, I know, but just felt like saying it :)Andrew Atkinhttp://andrewatkin.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/the-real-deal-housing-in-new-zealand.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-50548848379546678172014-08-03T12:02:38.800+12:002014-08-03T12:02:38.800+12:00What's always struck me most about this policy...What's always struck me most about this policy is its regressive nature. The better off can move to the zones with the better public schools by buying expensive houses (which as you note capitalise the education value to them, and put them further out of the reach of the less well-off), while the poorer families are lumbered with whatever's local, however bad. In general, greater choice will always most benefit those with least choice beforehand, which will generally be the poorer and more marginalDonal Curtinhttp://ecoonomicsnz.blogspot.co.nznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-10800066941583735592014-07-18T22:33:09.746+12:002014-07-18T22:33:09.746+12:00I wonder about "First, the market value of po...I wonder about "First, the market value of policy innovations that improve school quality is very high: a policy that improved NCEA pass rates by a standard deviation is worth about $42 billion." Because if all schools improved then the relative ranking possibly stays the same and i suspect its the relative advantage that people seek. And someone needs to call gibson out on the " Nevertheless, the wide variation in school performance" statement as numerous studies show that once intake is corrected for, there is remarkeably little variation in student perfornace due to schools.VMCnoreply@blogger.com