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hard to not reach for the tin foil hat
Yeah. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that education has been carefully thought out to encompass everything necessary. The limited / basic level of critical analysis, lack of philosophy of thought, etc.
Debt and compound interest is really odd though. Idk about everyone else, but we learnt probability with dice. Why not percentages with credit cards and loans?
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Also if the price increases for private schools are driven by richer foreign parents how long can they continue to receive charitable status ?
Maybe, but it won't make any difference to those sorts of private schools. So Idk there will be a change in demand pressure on less expensive private schools, just an increase in fees pushing out middling earners.
Everyone, every family, every school is different, but the general system is the same
That's the challenge with a comprehensive system. It also highlights the structural issues out our class dominated society - any alternatives will be graded by the heard - eg pollys and GNVQs are for thick people.
Interestingly I do see hypocrisy here on the left - academies are evil Vs. we need multifaceted schools.
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Captain fantastic is a decent film about this.
The points about education are interesting. I’ve never used trigonometry, critical analysis of literature but perhaps the point is not to only learn skills per se, but to expand a childs capacity to think.
On the other hand it’s pretty hard to not reach for the tin foil hat and think the government doesn’t want all the masses to have a grasp of banking, personal finance, stocks and shares etc.
Also if the price increases for private schools are driven by richer foreign parents how long can they continue to receive charitable status ?