dinsdag 12 mei 2009

Private schools hit by recession as parents look to the state sector




http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6269530.ece

Because of the economic crisis, many private schools in Britain are closing their doors because their pupils go to the state schools. Parents choose to spend less money on education for their children because of the less money that they can spend. This change in the education system has severe consequences for all schools in the country. It is not only a problem for the private schools that have to close and fire their employees, it is also impossible to give all the children that come from private schools, a place at state schools in the country.

In my opinion it is very difficult to solve this problem. It is highly unlikely that the economic crisis will be over soon, meaning that after the summer this problem will be even bigger than it is now because many parents want their children to go to another school at the beginning of the school year. A solution could be that they re-open the private schools as public schools with the same teachers they already had. This will make sure that all pupils can receive education. The difficulty of this idea is, that probably all children from public schools will try to go to these re-opened schools because they have private school qualified teachers. Anyhow, I think that the government should work hard on a solution because every child deserves education and right now, there are not enough places at public school to cover all children.

Geen opmerkingen:

Een reactie posten