[thechat] Jan 18 peace march

[Martin Burns]

On 21 Jan 2003, John Handelaar wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 14:21, aardvark wrote:
> > but that would mean privatizing it, which seems to scare the pants
> > off people... even though looking at other private education
> > institutions, you generally see a higher level of teacher...
>
> BZZT
>
> In the UK you don't need a teaching qualification to work
> in a private school.  The quality of most is abysmal - they
> get away with it by screening the kids with an entrance exam

...and add far smaller class sizes and better resources generally, plus
the motivation of parents who splash out money to send their kids there
tends to be higher too...

> so the end results look better - though in fact the same
> schools without the selection age 11 would be bottom of every
> league table.

Cheers
Martin

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