State Education V The People

A properly educated citizenry would have very little need for the State as provider.It would only seek its legitimate protection via its implicit threat of force towards those who would seek to cause them harm.This is why the State has a vested interest in ensuring that the broad mass of the populace is not properly educated.For this reason State education system is remarkable only in its success at producing uneducated and therfoe economically useless youths fit only to swell the ranks of the unemployed.Hence the resistance of State school establishment towards the academy movement started under the previous government and given form and self autonomy under the present administration.

The teachers unions have resisted this trend as they see the writing on the wall for the statist hegemony over education which is a form of pretectionism from competition and which defacto monopoly would be threatend by the introduction of independent non governmental groups running such schools thus freeing them from local council control with their implicit ideological stranglehold over the ethos of the schools.

So dogged and ideologically driven are the teachers unions that they have en masse resisted teaching phonics as a learning method of reading even though its staggeringly high success is well documented.With a looser curiculum not dictated by government this will introduce academic rigour into a system sadly lacking in the non academies sector which has been failing pupils for decades with trendy liberal politically correct subjects and methods of teaching that have failed too many young people whilst inflating their examination results in a cynical attempt to create a false picture of improvement and achievement.