Attendance is voluntary.
What
more need be said than that, in respect of Saturday’s protests by teachers?
Charter
schools are neither 'bullying' nor 'intimidation', as is the contention of
teacher unions, because attendance at them will be voluntary.
Teachers
who cannot comprehend the difference between ‘voluntary’, and the notion of ‘bullying’,
should not be teaching children.
Teachers
on these protests are patronising parents by not allowing them choice and the
exercise of their own judgement; the unwritten meaning behind the protests being
parents are too stupid to decide what education is best for their children.
Parents too
stupid to choose between a ‘choice’ of educational options for their children,
should not be having children.
95% of
all secondary school teachers belong to the PPTA, I suspect a similar figure
for primary teachers and NZEI: I find
this monopoly over children’s minds, in light of these protests, disturbing,
and all the more proof of need for non-state options.
…
Now if you want the extended version on why in a free society there is not even
a question over whether charter schools ‘are allowed’, of course they are, I’ve
written on them previously here.
You miss the truly important point: the question of whether in a free society state schools, and teacher unions "are allowed".
ReplyDeleteThe answer is of course not
NZ should turn all state schools into charters and then fully privatize, and should put all NZEI & PPTA members onto the register of child abusers -
if NZ cared about freedom!
NZ, generally, doesn't care about freedom: therein lies the problem. Yes to what you say, but none of that will be happening in my lifetime, so I'm concentrating on the spot fires of freedom that manage to light from time to time, hoping to fan them with a little oxygen.
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