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The author claims that "the corporation schools can reduce salaries, teacher density, resource staff." Though that claim makes me wonder how these schools attr

• brtkdotse 6y ago
  See ‘cost_of_marketing’.
  • leereeves 6y ago
    If the marketing is misleading, couldn't students just go back to their old schools?
    • brtkdotse 6y ago
      In theory, yes, but it’s not like changing internet providers - kids have friends, commuting might be harder. Not something you do on a whim.
• cloudfifty 6y ago
  They appeal to privileged students with well-educated parents. There's also a queue system in place to these schools which have many years waiting time, further segregating "active" parents from "inactive" parents. These students require less resources to educate and thus generate more profit. Also the students are now customers, and should ofc be made happy to give good ratings, which has caused grades to be inflated beyond the students actual results on standardized tests. Furthermore these schools generally market themselves as "international schools" with English as the primary language, making them able to use a loop hole in the law to employ cheaper non-licensed teachers from abroad.
• rndgermandude 6y ago
  They weed out hard-to-teach students, the author says, which means it will drive down the cost of teaching in private schools (less "hand holding" of bad students means fewer teachers required) while raising the cost in municipal schools at the same time, because the municipal schools basically get all the "bad students" which require additional hand holding. Furthermore, if you outright reject "bad students" - where "bad" may mean intellectually bad, socially bad, bad economic background, disabled ("with diagnosis"), etc - then you can later claim in your marketing materials that students in your private school are performing above average. It probably will also lower administrative burden, as the "easy" students are less likely to get in major trouble, are less likely to need involvement of the school and child protected services in their lives, the teachers go to court as a witness in child abuse cases less, etc. And of course, you can always simply pay teachers less than in municipal schools - which is one of the claims of the author as well. And the last claim the author made is that a lot of these companies just hire some under-qualifiied teachers whenever they can get away with it. I have to admit, the author makes a lot of sense to me.
• imtringued 6y ago
  Because all the other "good" students are there and all the "bad" students are in the public schools. You don't want your kid to be surrounded by "bad" kids, do you? (I'm not serious)
• NoSubstitute 6y ago
  This is exactly the topic of a book written about the issue, called "De Lönsamma" (the profitable). Two people from the world of education doing deep dives into the budgets of many municipalities also show infuriatingly poor judgement when allowing a new independent school to establish, with loads of subsidies and taxcuts. "En bok om varför skolor slåss om elever, och om hur vinster i välfärden bara är en liten del av den diskussion vi behöver ha." (A book about why schools fight over students, and how profits in public service is only a small part of the discussion we need to have.) https://tankesmedjanbalans.se/ https://tankesmedjanbalans.se/