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Dec. 15th, 2005 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
f4f3The league tables for Scottish schools have just been published. I realise that league tables are a blunt instrument for measuring performance, but I thought I’d have a peek at how my old school, All Saints in Glasgow, was doing.
The results depressed me, showing just how bad the exam results were compared to the city’s norm. Then I looked at the results for the private schools in Glasgow, and I stopped being depressed and started being furious instead.
Leaving aside the morality of private education, the results demonstrate just what can be achieved by throwing money at education.
2 out of 3 pupils getting five or more highers (the Scottish A Level) against 1 in 20
97% of pupils going on to university against an average of 32% or worse.
More than half of the pupils at my old school are poor enough to qualify fro free school meals – how many of their children will end up the same?
The results depressed me, showing just how bad the exam results were compared to the city’s norm. Then I looked at the results for the private schools in Glasgow, and I stopped being depressed and started being furious instead.
Leaving aside the morality of private education, the results demonstrate just what can be achieved by throwing money at education.
2 out of 3 pupils getting five or more highers (the Scottish A Level) against 1 in 20
97% of pupils going on to university against an average of 32% or worse.
More than half of the pupils at my old school are poor enough to qualify fro free school meals – how many of their children will end up the same?
