For all their self-serving palaver about ‘the workers’, the one thing crystal clear about the left is just how much they hate working-class people. Whether it’s insider elites sneering about ‘deplorables’, or an entire globalist project whose entire purpose seems to be keeping the vast mass of peasants toiling away while the elite clink their champagne glasses on their private jets.
How else to explain, for instance, the systematic hollowing-out of a public education system that was once world-class? With indoctrination systematically displacing education, and with the indoctrination starting at so-called ‘child care’, generations are emerging from 18 years of brainwashing, able to pretend they’re any of 72 imaginary genders, but unable to read or do basic maths.
And in case you think that’s a bug, not a feature, consider how furious public educators are about being shown up.
The rise of the billion-dollar private tutoring industry has sparked calls for greater oversight and regulation of the shadow education system as experts warn the boom in coaching risks undermining classroom teaching.
How, exactly, is it ‘undermining’ classroom teaching?
Apparently by showing up how badly it’s letting children and parents down.
At some public schools, more than half of students attend private academic tutoring, while coaching centres across Sydney are running more than 500 tutoring classes each week in maths, English and core HSC subjects.
Teachers say, for some children, tutoring has become more important than school, leading to disengagement in class and students learning curriculum content up to two years ahead of their peers.
Up to two years ahead of their peers. How dare they!
Now, think about the left’s response: not ‘How can we bring public schools up to that level?’, but ‘How can we drag down high-achieving kids to the same low standards as everyone else?’ This from the same people who thundered that having two natural parents at home, who read books, was an ‘unfair’ ‘privilege’.
The left really hate merit that much.
Even more, they hate their own failures being shown up.
New research by University of Technology Sydney social scientist Christina Ho examined the influence of private tutoring at six public primary schools in northern and western Sydney, including three with OCs.
It found between 23 and 59 per cent of year five students attended outside-of-school tutoring, with the highest rates in schools with an [Opportunity Class (OC)].
It says something about how pathetic the public school system is, that parents are willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars to make sure their kids do better than the continually falling standards offered by public schools.
Naturally, the left are hell-bent on stamping out any flickers of merit in the public school system.
The study comes as education researchers and experts call for a national audit of the tutoring sector to assess practices and risks, including child safety screening, working with children checks and tutor credentials.
“Tutoring has grown to become a billion-dollar industry in Australia, but it lacks accreditation, enforced codes of conduct or real protection for students,” said Dr Ben Zunica, an education lecturer at Sydney University. He added: “Anyone can advertise services, without demonstrating qualifications or accountability. Many spend tens of thousands of dollars, with little assurance of quality.”
And yet, the children are doing so much better. When even an ‘unregulated’ system system is such a huge improvement on the regulated government offering, the problem clearly isn’t with the private tutoring sector.
But it’s far easier for the left to shoot everyone else down than lift their own game.
After all, if this keeps going on, the proles might leave school with a useful education, and then where would the left be?
