These schools sound a lot like what we call
charter schools here in the US. They're a variation on the idea of
school vouchers, proposed by economist Milton Freedman in the 1950s.
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Originally Posted by Hebdomad
These same lowering of standards could happen to these new schools. What parent is going to send their child to a school which has a notoriously stingy grading reputation (for coursework)? The resultant lower grades would lessen their child's future prospects. I can't see any schools who proposes to teach Latin fairing well, either.
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Many of the charter schools here cater to parents looking for back-to-the-basics (like Latin) and academic rigor. If you're a parent looking for declining standards and grade inflation, our state-run public schools already have that market pretty well covered.
Perhaps surprisingly, many parents seem to actually want their children to get a good education (and by that I mean not just good grades).
Grades were already problematic for comparison purposes, which is why standardized test scores are replacing grades as the more reliable metric.
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