Reverse Robin hood

IrishBill
15 years ago
Categories: class war, education

The Prime Minister strains to pull the plug on funding for poorest schools while maintaining his "nice guy" image.

John Key’s policy to get kids into sport turns out to be a transfer of dollars from low decile schools to high decile ones.

When I say “policy” what I should say is “photo opportunity” as Key launched the scheme at a South Auckland school (ironically it will be South Auckland schools are most likely to lose out under his scheme) and even used a bunch of high-profile sportspeople to add some extra gloss.

It’s alright though as Auckland Grammar is quite happy about it saying anything extra they get from the government is welcome.

It’s like watching Robin Hood in reverse.