https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2 ... tudy-finds
Summary, state schools pupils whose parents have the same money now achieving similar results in secondary school level Maths, Sciences and English Language compared to private scholl students but still lagging in creative arts subjects.
State school teachers would like us to believe they're doing something as well as private ones now, when twenty years ago they didn't.
Thinking of teaching as very much a transitive verb.
I ask what has changed for students from well off backgrounds over the last couple of decades?
IMO cramming hard subjects, which even English Language is at that level, has been automated and remoted.
Creative arts doesn't lend itself to internet learning, revision and practice to anything like the same extent.
Well off parents whose kids do well at hard subjects are likely to be comfortable with those subjects themselves, which will tend to make them comfortable with internet aid to passing+ exams.
Conclusions:
Internet has removed the performance gap between the better paid hard subjects teachers in the private and state sectors.
The extra pay a teacher could get in the private sector for better cramming in those subjects will decline. Quite quickly because those parents are the types to notice and act.
Downward pressure on teachers' pay and conditions generally.
Luvvies come even more from a self licking lollipop club.
Teachers squeal.
Society gains.
Politics slowly becomes more rational.
Edit to add:
Autocorrupt changed passing to "padding". Code monkey lets slip how they got their grades.
Summary, state schools pupils whose parents have the same money now achieving similar results in secondary school level Maths, Sciences and English Language compared to private scholl students but still lagging in creative arts subjects.
State school teachers would like us to believe they're doing something as well as private ones now, when twenty years ago they didn't.
Thinking of teaching as very much a transitive verb.
I ask what has changed for students from well off backgrounds over the last couple of decades?
IMO cramming hard subjects, which even English Language is at that level, has been automated and remoted.
Creative arts doesn't lend itself to internet learning, revision and practice to anything like the same extent.
Well off parents whose kids do well at hard subjects are likely to be comfortable with those subjects themselves, which will tend to make them comfortable with internet aid to passing+ exams.
Conclusions:
Internet has removed the performance gap between the better paid hard subjects teachers in the private and state sectors.
The extra pay a teacher could get in the private sector for better cramming in those subjects will decline. Quite quickly because those parents are the types to notice and act.
Downward pressure on teachers' pay and conditions generally.
Luvvies come even more from a self licking lollipop club.
Teachers squeal.
Society gains.
Politics slowly becomes more rational.
Edit to add:
Autocorrupt changed passing to "padding". Code monkey lets slip how they got their grades.
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