The failure of the decile rating/funding system for schools is highlighted yet again by this report which shows one in five primary school children is anti-social, yet at the poorest schools the figure rises to over one in three. The problem is apparently that these schools are not adequately funded to deal with children with behavioural problems. I don't know why not. We have just received a bill for $350 for our local state school 'donation'. In fact this is the subsidy we pay to poor schools who get twice as much funding as ours. And still want more.
In any event it is the home lives of these children which lie at the heart of the problem. I would bet you anything you like that a large majority have come out of dysfunctional families created on the back of welfare. Which we also subsidised. That's the Kiwi way. We don't pay tax to solve problems. We pay it to create them.
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Downhill momentum rarely stops before reaching the bottom.
Here is another bit of illogic with the decile system.
Local primary school = decile 3
Nearest intermediate school (1km further away) = decile 6
College (400m up the road from the inermediate)= decile 6
and it is not unusual to have children from the same family, and therefore same income level at 2 or all 3 of the above.
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