Summary
WHAT is all this fuss about school placing requests? As your editorial on Monday correctly states, placing requests are a hangover from Tory laws which were designed to destroy the state education system. If they had remained in office the East Dunbartonshire Council schools currently performing well probably would not exist. The Tory idea was to facilitate the rich getting the best schools and everyone else being left with the most minimal provision.
Placing requests were one of the mechanisms to achieve this. The idea was that if you were able to deliver your child to the best- performing school you should be allowed to do that. The inevitable outcome would have been a gradual decline of the state sector as the better schools acquired pupils from well-to-do families, who were able and willing to invest more in their children's education than most people, and who would try to ensure this advantage continued by getting their schools to opt out of the state system. They would then have received favoured status from the Tory government for funding and the rest could be disregarded.See the full content of this document
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Time to Get Rid of a Malign Tory Education Policy
Thus, the idea that having removed the opting-out possibility we are left with the mechanism designed to assist it is bizarre. Why should East Dunbartonshire, or any other council, have to pla...
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