Our education system at present is not fit for purpose but as our millionaire cabal, called the cabinet, working on behalf of the financial Mafia, continue with their "austerity", "deficit reduction" plan, the situation can only deteriorate. Schooling at present is not about education, it is about being a conveyor belt system to feed the needs of the corporate world. Those that can't be used at a profit by the corporate beast, can be dumped as surplus to requirements. Our kids deserve more than that as their future prospects, they deserve the full spectrum of cultural interaction, every opportunity to develop to their full potential. Of course we all know that it will not happen in a capitalist exploitative profit driven system of greed.
OOR SKOOL'S CRAP.
This from A World to Win.
Schools becoming cultural deserts
What kind of education you get – and the chance to participate in
music, film, theatre and other forms of culture – is more than ever
dependent on your parents’ status and income, how aggressive they are
in getting you into a well-resourced school, if they can afford extra
tuition and where you live.
Middle class and wealthy parents offset poor provision in many
state schools by moving to other areas, sending their children to
fee-paying schools or paying for private tuition. But these options are
difficult or impossible for those on lower incomes, those whose
benefits are being slashed and those living outside urban centres.
Above all, children’s access to culture is most affected by inequality, as Action for Children’s Arts
(ACA) reveals. Using information obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act, the charity discovered that, while children under 12
years make up 15% of the population, “their share of the available
public funding for the arts is rarely more than 1%”.
