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My daughters primary school is asking for money. Is that normal?

Isn’t the point of academies to be financed in a way to make the Tories look good? The more that fail to balance the books and revert to non-academies the better for the future of the country, but tragic for the kids being used as part of this ploy.

Our school has PTA events to raise funds, they are fun, social events with a clear objective of how much is wanted to be raised over the year for whatever project has been agreed on. General school funding should come from government and non-academies seem to be able to cope quite well with that..?
 
My daughter's school is about to become an academy because its Ofsted report was awful and the Tories don't want failing schools. By which I mean that they don't want anything to do with them, obs. Certainly they don't want to be putting money into them.

So, yeah. I think it might be an academy thing. But I've always been suspicious of academies. My son's school is an academy and they ask for money now and then. Usually for materials but it's always way more than the materials actually cost. Not that I mind but it's the principle of the thing. The academy system is too much like a business, and businesses are failing.
 
I might have understood the academy thing wrong, but seems to me you have a business asking for a bailout here. If that's the case they should be justifying every bloody thing they've spent.
 
Isn’t the point of academies to be financed in a way to make the Tories look good? The more that fail to balance the books and revert to non-academies the better for the future of the country, but tragic for the kids being used as part of this ploy.

The point of academies was to break the education system.
  • to break the comprehensive ideal
  • to break LA control over schools and place it in the hands of businesses and charities
  • to break the national pay scale and other pay & conditions stuff
  • to break the teaching unions
Pure ideological wrecking.
 
Is it only academies that can ask for money then?
I don't know.

I would be writing a letter expressing my concern at the school's financial management and asking if they can continue to provide education for its pupils without charitable donations. Also emailing my MP.


I feel like I should write ask the school what exactly is going on with the budget. They have agreed as an academy that they can run under the money provided. We pay extras for trips and extra school activities. The letter says
"(Blah blah) is a registered charity and the amins of the trust are to raise the educational aspirations of all our children, who are the beneficiaries of the charity. With this in mind. each academic year we are asking our families to a contribution towards providing those extra resources and opportunities that are beyond the reach of existing budgets."
So it sound like they want to provide 'something extra', so I think I should at least maybe ask them to specify what that is. . . or am I being petty?
All they have said is that it is not going to pay for other kids who could not afford to pay for other school trips etc (which I thought sounded a bit frickin' harsh, but is maybe needed considering the working class tory daily mail mums that crowd round the school gate).

And the charity thing. I thought it was 'charitable status' and not an actual 'we get our money from charity', isn't that misrepresenting the situation a bit?
It's a bit like all the taxes I pay . . . and yet I have to now pay extra for some council services, medical options, and now schools? All hail the new brexit, what are things going to be like when that hits???
 
The future is a voucher based system a la Pinochet's Chile.

It's already creeping into the SEND sector.

Full marketisation, parents being issued vouchers (or personal budgets or whatever term they think they'll get away with) to "spend" on education. "Choice" will be the carrot. Better off parents using this to subsidise private education. Parents will of course end up topping up this up across the board. Charities will increasingly (attempt to) plug the gaps lower down.

Its coming :mad:.
 
The future is a voucher based system a la Pinochet's Chile.

It's already creeping into the SEND sector.

Full marketisation, parents being issued vouchers (or personal budgets or whatever term they think they'll get away with) to "spend" on education. "Choice" will be the carrot. Better off parents using this to subsidise private education. Parents will of course end up topping up this up across the board. Charities will increasingly (attempt to) plug the gaps lower down.

Its coming :mad:.
That idea was first floated in the 90s, no? Not saying they wouldn't love to do this, but not easy to do.
 
From my POV, I'm not on the national pay scale, I earn well under - maybe 60-65% of what I would if I was.
 
I work with with disadvantaged kids. They don't deserve the best teachers after all.
Waste of time even sending them to school tbh.

It's an uneasy thing to do to try to put yourself in the position of defending these ideas with some kind of rational justification. Scary place to be.
 
You not heard of things like London-weighting?

In addition to that, you tackle the reasons why there are expensive areas in the first place. Integrated policy...

Yes, but what about places just outside the London weighting or everywhere else in the country where is is expensive to live ?

How is it for those workers ?

Alex
 
Why is it expensive to live in these places? Is this something you think ought to be tackled, or should policies be directed towards reinforcing such inequalities?

I can do the Socratic method too, see.
 
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