Comments on: Prioritising private education

By: StephenR

StephenR — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:47:57 +0000

so dont treat this tax funding private schools thing like its an isolated issue. Your taxes have very recently gone towards bailing out private enterprises.

Like?

By: StephenR

StephenR — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:47:41 +0000

Parents arn’t going to send kids to private school if the can *JUST* afford it…. Do you get what I mean??

There are a few newspaper articles showing just that in the last year or so.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:48:30 +0000

ok I just wanted to say, I saw some people saying that ‘taxes dont need to support a fundamentally private enterprise’

happens ALL THE TIME… its called a BAIL OUT… and billions of tax dollars went from governments into private enterprises in free markets around the world in the recent recession

so dont treat this tax funding private schools thing like its an isolated issue. Your taxes have very recently gone towards bailing out private enterprises.

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:34:54 +0000

I think that the education system should be better in private and non-private schools.

e.g. some schools have absolute terrible facilities and others have very good facilities and this is making the education system wierd and comfusing.

i think all schools should have good facilities.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:08:51 +0000

Well well well – 2.6mill – How ironic – same amount of money it cost to rebuild Aorangi – but no, those ‘poorer’ kids were better off with the school being closed and them shipped off to higher decile schools. So now we know why Tolley wanted to close the school and reinvest the money somewhere else – private! Another kick in the gut from Tolley to the community – what next?

By: n0exit

n0exit — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:24:40 +0000

StephenR- No, because kids going to private school still pay taxes to fund public schools. Also even if funding for private schools is cut off it is unlikly that many kids would change to public schools. If you can afford private school you can afford it. Parents arn’t going to send kids to private school if the can *JUST* afford it…. Do you get what I mean??

By: StephenR

StephenR — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:17:27 +0000

Just paid for.

If the govt stopped paying any money to private schools, and a number of the kids then went to public schools instead, wouldn’t that cost the government more than if the kids just stayed private?

By: Draco T Bastard

Draco T Bastard — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:00:41 +0000

Maybe you’ve heard this before, but up to a certain level of government subsidy (say 50% of costs), couldn’t finding private schools save money, assuming a lot of private school kids would go to state schools for a ‘full subsidy’ if they couldn’t afford the private ones?

Misdirection. The kids going to state schools aren’t subsidised.

By: StephenR

StephenR — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:00:10 +0000

So I endorse more state scholarships for parents to have the choice of schools.

Why stop at ‘more’ and not just say ‘give’em all vouchers!’?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:42:46 +0000

Of all the working class parents who send their children to private schools (except one for a boarding school as the child was running wild) they all stated they did not see the education as better (the class trips were), but that they would be able make friends from within the wealthy and influential families. ie they would get inside running for later career development via the social network. I have no opinion on this but am attracted to the real ‘alternative’ schools such as Montessori. So I endorse more state scholarships for parents to have the choice of schools.

However when everyone else is belt tightening (ACE) and state schools still threaten parents to pay fees and add on costs that are fundamental parts of the Ed system (camps, balls) I have to wonder about the priorities of the minister, and who is missing out so she can buy some votes?