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Running for profit infrastructure is so stupid I honestly cannot describe it in words. You want to minimize your costs, not maximize them.
Profit driven schools in Sweden probably do minimize their costs, but that of course only benefits the private equity firms that own them, not the state or the students.
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We used to have the option of regular supermarkets, but they later banned it because they didn't want students eating inside the school at winter.
Do they have food trucks in Sweden? Maybe students can pool in money and hire a cook or contract with a food truck to provide meals on time. When I was in school back in India..and this was many decades ago...me and my cousins would get hot lunch delivered by my grandparents. But there was this group of kids who had working parents and from nuclear families...and a bunch of them hired a lady to cook meals for 10-12 o…
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This is amazing. You recommend eating burgers from McD for lunch every day? Not fruits, not home cooked food, not simple sandwiches, not street food --- but MacDonalds burgers in Sweden Holy shit.
No, I reccomend changing schools as their lunch allowance isn't enough to cover even a full meal at McDonalds. If they just got cash the recommendation would be to get something from a supermarket, but it's locked to restasurants so single burgers is likely an upper limit outside of the cointracted restaurants that, as stated, sometimes denies service. I wonder what gives you the idea that hot dogs is much better tha…
You suggest - please correct me if Im wrong - that a person should change schools because of lunch allowance?
Jesus' feces.Holy shit!
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Profit-driven schools don't cater to gifted kids. They cater to kids with rich and highly educated parents. The goal is to do less, to extract more profit.
Neither. Parents don't pay for schools in Sweden, so profit driven schools are just as free as other schools. Also, they are not elite schools in any sense, they are just slightly better organised and attract students that care enough about their education to select a different school than the default. Sweden is not the US, it's quite different.
> With the deregulation of the 1990s, the ambition was to create thriving, independent schools, foundations, parent cooperatives and small limited company schools with educational alternatives. Sure, and the purpose of privatising welfare institutions, railroads and electric grids is to benefit the citizens, not the cronies of politicians...
Let the parents pay for private schools and the market will select schools that do the best compromise for their need. I've found some unverified results claiming that parents are more satisfied with Swedish independent school than public schools. If that's true, parents are still getting a better service than with the public offering.
I'm pro privatisation in general because, in my experience, government-run institutions waste more money and provide a worse service.
Of course if you get politicians underselling public assets to their friends, the loss on the assets is just going to be pocketed by politicians and you'll get a worse service.
I don't blame privatisation though, I blame the politicians.
Rich people of course send their kids to high end private schools, residential or day schools, and that's in an entirely different world.
What's confusing to me is it says the private schools are attracting more driven, independent and smarter students while increasing class sizes, reducing teacher salaries and reducing resource staff. So how are they attracting these students and why can't the public schools attract these students? Where I'm from, small class sizes is one of the first things parents want.
Schooling is more than grades. It’s a place ones children disappear for about 8 hours and you can’t have access to them or what influences them. Private schools = a little bit of control you can exert on how one would want their children to be educated. This is especially true for religious parents.
Something's lost in translation here: what do they mean by "joy grades"?
Grade inflation: the same test outcome is rewarded with progressively higher grades as time goes on and pressure increases to improve grades.
Parents don't pay $60K/year for their kids to get Cs.
While I agree with the article about the problems of profit-driven schools, the whole situation (and the article in parts) points to a imho bigger problem in most education systems: Profit-driven schools cater to the more able, easier to educate and more intelligent pupils. Why can they do that? Because public schools almost everywhere insist on coeducation of the most and least gifted. This is severely holding back…
What you call "most and least gifted" is in my opinion better described as "most and least privileged". And coeducation of students of different levels of privilege just seems like a good thing, nothing that needs to be dealt with.
I'm a student in one of the AcadeMedia for-profit schools. They have around 30 schools with the same brand name as mine and they keep on buying others. There's over 600 of them. There are of course other brands that they own but this one is focused on technology. Now let me tell you about my experience. First, this school is very focused on marketing. They keep on doing things that are only for seemingly attracting s…