Education
Sir, —Your editorial entitled “Mediocrity in schools” (December 5) deserves wholehearted support. Long since have educators, and the system they operate, pandered to the minority or pressure groups who would reduce education to the lowest common denominator level. The Picot reforms will do nothing to reverse this trend. The Minister of Education, Mr Lange, has gambled the academic future of this nation on a system which is untried and radical, just as he has backed the wizardry of economic reforms espoused by Roger Douglas! It is small wonder many parents have given up waiting for the smaller class numbers Labour promised and sent their children to independent schools instead. Figures recently issued show the rolls of independent schools have just risen 2.6 per cent over last year’s figures, despite those parents not receiving meaningful relief for having to pay twice for their child’s education. —Yours, etc., WILLIAM RICHARDSON. December 5, 1988.
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