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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 10:03 pm, February 11th, 2018I don't know about Seymour, but a good sporting record tends to make state schools a little more 'flexible' when it comes to enforcing zoning.
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 9:48 pm, February 11th, 2018How many of the PS's are 'for profit'? Do you even know? Meanwhile, as you engage your fantasies, the children attending the PS's (who no-one even cares about, and who the state system had failed!), are the victims in your petty little play.
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 9:32 pm, February 11th, 2018"I doubt it." You mean you don't even know! For heavens sake, do you even realise there are many non-state providers, many 'for-profit', in other sectors of the NZ education system? Do you know a large swathe of the ECE sector is delivered this way? Do ...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 9:29 pm, February 11th, 2018"There’s no shut down, just a restructuring of how government funding (your money!) is spent..." It isn't that simple, and I suspect you know that. There is currently no pathway to integration. There is no legislative framework. The 'pathway' the PM spoke ...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 9:23 pm, February 11th, 2018"Where they differ is in the pocketing by charter school owners of state cash under the banner of efficiency." More lies. Virtually all PS's are not-for-profit.
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 9:18 pm, February 11th, 2018He/she is. Otherwise there would be no reason for the government to threaten to shut the down.
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 9:12 pm, February 11th, 2018"But you can look this up yourself instead of aggressively coming after me." You made a claim that implied these schools are nice little earners for families etc. I'm asking you to prove it. "Have you got shares in one of these schools?" No. I have no ...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 9:10 pm, February 11th, 2018...and I believe only one of the PS's is 'for profit', so this 'privateers' meme is total nonsense.
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 9:10 pm, February 11th, 2018"It is galling to then see generous funding misdirected to costly new initiatives like these Charter Schools when such initiatives, with decent funding and good will from Govt, could be easily and more cheaply be initiated within a better-resourced state ...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 9:07 pm, February 11th, 2018Thanks Stuart. I have repeatedly stated my support for state schools. I attended three excellent state schools in the '60's and '70's, as did my partner. But even then they did not suit everyone. The popularity of integrated, private and other special ...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 9:04 pm, February 11th, 2018The point? The government is going to close a thriving school and keep one open that has no pupils.
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 9:03 pm, February 11th, 2018Do you have any examples to tell us about? Or are you just making this up?
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 9:02 pm, February 11th, 2018"I expect that’s because her government being about to close his school is something you pulled out of your arse," No, it isn't. There is no pathway in law for the schools to remain open, and Hipkins has said they will close. "You heard from the SpinOff ...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 8:58 pm, February 11th, 2018"Unlike private schools, the public system can’t cherry-pick its preferred pupils and then excrete the less-satisfactory pickings for someone else to take care of. " You couldn't be more wrong. "In partnership schools, 75% of students must be priority ...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 8:49 pm, February 11th, 2018Cite? I've provided plenty for my claims. You have provided none for yours.
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 8:48 pm, February 11th, 2018Again, claims without substantiation.
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 8:47 pm, February 11th, 2018"If I was the Minister of Education I would put the money paid out to Charter schools into the State schools." So that those state schools can continue to fail those pupils? "I found it abhorrent that we had a Government that paid private authoritarian ...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 6:23 pm, February 11th, 2018Can you point to the 'pathway' (to use the weasel words so far deployed by the government) in any legislation that actually provides for that transition?
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 6:22 pm, February 11th, 2018Oh on past form I'm not expecting you to be able to actually justify your claims. But one day...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 6:21 pm, February 11th, 2018The funding actually needed is infinite if you work in the sector. Just like health. You can ask for the moon and still not have enough. But the simple truth is that the funding provided has kept pace with GDP growth and ahead of other spending priorities ...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 6:13 pm, February 11th, 2018What evidence? Cite the evidence. That is certainly not the findings of the Credo study, or of the progress of PS's in NZ.
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 6:12 pm, February 11th, 2018I didn't blame the school, at least not in the sense of the people. But state education cannot cater for everyone, hence the demand for other alternatives. Partnership schools are providing a cost effective alternative for children who were failing in the ...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 6:08 pm, February 11th, 2018Don't know. I'm still waiting for you to admit you got the greedy privatisers bit wrong.
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 6:07 pm, February 11th, 2018"It has enrollments “pending”, " Just a matter of days ago, Jacinda Ardern and Peeni Henare were photographed with Dominic Elliot, a student of Middle School West Auckland (https://www.facebook.com/Middle-School-West-Auckland-664746236980176/). The PM was ...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 5:02 pm, February 11th, 2018...and yet it has no pupils. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5zEb1oS9A
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 5:00 pm, February 11th, 2018Virtually all of the PS's are not-for-profit. I doubt 'greedy privatisers' would be very interested.
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 3:58 pm, February 11th, 2018"Charter schools, and indeed private schools in general, have everywhere caused a lowering of standards and drop in funding to the State system." Cite? There is ample evidence that Partnership/Charter schools are improving educational outcomes for children...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 3:54 pm, February 11th, 2018"Probably Tuturumuri school rebates most of that anyway." Those are it's annual operating costs, directly funded by the MoE. "There are no fulltime staff or pupils at the rural Wairarapa school, but it remains open, with the Ministry of Education ...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 3:43 pm, February 11th, 2018I'm simply pointing out the hypocrisy of some of the comparisons being made. In you're own post you obliquely referred to "some cases" where "charter schools were paid $27,000 per annum per child compared to $7,000 per annum per child for the state ...
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 3:41 pm, February 11th, 2018It is well funded. https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/indicators/main/resource/total_investment_in_education
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Comment:The problem with Charter Schools
Date published: 3:29 pm, February 11th, 2018"Besides the spinoff article you rely on was written by someone associated with charter schools." Indeed. Someone who clearly has an excellent grasp on the facts. "The failure has been imagination and funding, not the existence of an alternative. Besides ...
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