That joke about not losing a seat... that's just too funny.

"What does it DO?" As one who used to work as a teacher, I applaud.

"No Prime Minister ever lost a seat if he could help it." 😆😆😆

"Fine, get rid of them." Simply *brilliant,* brilliantly simple.

That last line is brilliance.

Whenever people drag in objectives that have nothing to do with the goal of an institution like the employment of people for it's own sake it undermines the purpose of the entire endeavor.

Quite honestly, local government is vastly overrated. Local governments in general lack the necessary qualified personnel, and this lack can hardly ever be properly compensated by well-designed rules.

The joke was brilliant. My god such phenomenal writing it’s just unbelievable.

School choice. What an enlightened idea!

When Daleks visit the Earth they will know where to start first.

"Exterminate...Exterminate...Exterminate" - Dorothy the Dalek

The idea seems brilliant in principle. Sadly, it assumes that the schools will compete on quality outcomes, which they don't, or at least most of the private schools don't. The public schools are forced to remain ideologically neutral - or at least ideologically silent - leaving the private sector to characterise the public schools' ideologies however they wish (think words like "radical", "leftist" and "woke") while setting themselves up as an "alternative". The can't say "academically superior" or even "educationally superior"; they instead market themselves as "a Christian alternative" or "a traditional alternative" or a "progressive alternative" to whatever they just told you the public schools are. This war of perception and marketing is fought without the public sector having any right to its own defence. Secondly, they compete on cost. Public schools shouldn't cost the parents beyond the taxes they pay, so sending their children to a private school or a public school in a wealthier area with more expensive programs is made to feel superior. After all, if you have the option of getting something for free or paying for it, you automatically assume that the one you pay for is better. This of course ignores that public education is in fact funded, just by all taxpayers instead of only the parents and children using it. Nothing to do with quality; everything to do with perception and marketing. Thirdly, by having the government treat education as a business, they focus on minimising costs instead of maximising student outcomes. As other commenters have pointed out, the children who attend public schools don't vote, but the taxpayers who fund the schools (many of whom don't have children there) do. It wins more votes to cut the cost of education and let education suffer, thus reducing the cost to the taxpayer and making public schools less appealing, than allocating more money to public education and making it competitive on quality alone. I wonder if this has anything to do with how many politicians and bureaucrats attended private schools...

Hacker is right, it is impossible to evaluate the performance of a teacher, and whatever workbench measure one adopts to evaluate the performance, the behaviour of the teacher will be skewed to maximize that measure. It's a common problem in all the public sector. In the Education sector there is another problem, if you want the students, or the parents, to evaluate the teachers, you have to separate teaching from students' evaluation, lest teachers will increase votes in order to "buy" students', or parents', consent.

@ETericET lol, thanks, but I was actual talking about the privatisation of the education system - a friend of mine linked me here when we were arguing about it. I've changed mine tune a little bit since then though. I actually live in Australia, so I knew what a seat was, I just didn't bother responding to the other guy because it seemed a bit pointless ;) I appreciate your consideration though!

I did fancy Hackers missus, quite a yummy mummy 😍

Dorothy was brilliant!!

Please turn the sound up. It was virtually inaudible, even with the volume at maximum.

Genius

"I couldn't do that" One second later "I could do that" 😂

@saidthedog In the UK or here in Canada for that matter we have a Parliament system. So instead of districts we have seats here. You vote for the person in your seat that you like and the party that has the most seats wins. I know this relpy is very late .. but I decided to do it because of the one relpy you did get 11 months ago that wasn't too helpfull.

school choice 101

How Jim finally got it "get rid of it?"

Diana Hoddinot was stunning

It's not as great as it sounds. Schools in America are already paid per student, but the schools are only really concerned with test scores and attendance records because those determine their funding.

The conservative line in Yes Minister is particularly evident here.

know I know about middle glass life to a primer minister.

“Exterminate it!”

The Academy system in a nutshell

This is why support reducing the voting age if you want better education systems let the people who directly use them have a say in the matter because for most politicians it's just a baby sitting service they provide to the parents. They have to listen to the teachers but if they make up a small portion of the population they don't need to listen to them as thoroughly but give the teachers allies who benefit from them having better salaries and equipment like the students and politicians will be forced to listen to them.

this whole dilemma with being fair to bad teachers is only a thing because we live in a society that forces you to either work a job or starve so you can't remove anyone doing a bad job without basically condemning them too starve

hah, what a lady, only remove the redistribution and it's like any other service, with charities funding the poor kids.

how can you like a joke you dont get? that makes absolutely no sense..

Get rid of it?🤨 😆

the free market will provide

This is horrifying. I laughed at this at the time but this immediately became actual govt policy. Ofsted was invented to disrupt normal school running and force lots of bureaucracy on schools. Money followed pupils, creating automatic sink schools and thus political footballs. Baker and Thatcher, moreover, fully admitted later that they knew full well how intensely damaging the changes would be to state schooling but as they were Tories, such crippling was fully their intention. Screw education, it sounded good and won votes. And it's all still with us, over thirty years later. Fixing it was impossible for the Labour administration who simply made it worse by handing over schools to private companies, which even the Tories had not dared to do. The whole school landscape is still a blasted heath, fragmentary, limping along like a bunch of war veterans. All the experienced teachers left long ago and most teachers have been those young ones we always hated to get stuck with when kids, since the early 90s. That favourite teacher in their 60s is rare nowadays. Because they cost more. Heads are so strapped for cash, that only the cheapest, fresh out of teacher training, will do. And unlike before, they themselves have to do all the school administration, instead of the local authority dealing with it. Utter waste of time of a highly skilled person. And it's here, in one talk in one episode. I almost vomited.

Bringing radical changes in a jiffy is always a bad idea for many reasons. The no. Of ppl involved. The scale of geography involved. The money required just to replace the old system is huge. What looks perfectly good in a drawing room discussion tends to fall flat in d real world. Eliminating inefficiency in the current system, bringing in pilot projects and gradual changes are much more likely to work better. A real life example of radical changes falling flat is the Demonitisation debacle in india in 2016. Big currency notes were scrapped overnight. Replacement notes weren't available in d required numbers . The economy went in a tailspin. The motive was to eliminate black money. Well 99% of the currency came back in circulation within a year. Classic contemporary case of a drawing room concept falling flat. And u know what, the PM got re elected with even a bigger majority.

i liked the seat joke but i dont get it

Why is this such an absurd idea? Good schools get the students and the best resources, and the worst fold. Oh I forgot. Unions; they don't only care about their members.

I cant understand why the department of education still exists. Sure the curriculum changes every few years but its like college textbooks they just rearrange the same nonsense with a new catchy title and waste everyone's money. The school board and principals too, what do they do that teachers couldn't do for themselves? What we need is one guy, he sets a universal set of school rules, holidays and trips out with a modification range of a few days if teachers ask for it. You tie wages to inflation and use the money saved by cutting all that fat to get some decent food, equipment and opportunity for these kids

2:48 This has been tried here in Sweden. Don't do it. It's terrible policy. Grade inflation skyrocketed because of schools trying to raise their grade averages to attract pupils. Also, "white flight" became a thing in the immigrant-heavy suburbs and now we're the most segregated country in Europe according to RFE.

And HE gets payed per patient???? A very conservative episode if you ask me 2:45

The madly berry resultspreviously load because crab unpredictably hope between a regular vermicelli. mundane, merciful belief

Could have done without the blonde. She served no purpose in my opinion.