September 4, 2007

Education in the hands of citizen juries

It could sound like something from the French Revolution, groups of citizens sitting around a table deciding the fate of their next victim. But this is the “New” idea from the Prime Minister Gordon Brown who proposes that these citizen juries will over look more or less all public services.

Yet this is not a new idea, it has been used before in some Quango’s, where people have been approached after being selected from the electoral registers and has been done with some success.

Now it appears that the government has taken note of this and taken it a step further. So it seems that we can expect to see people from all walks of life deciding on how the education of our children is going to funded and what schools are going to need help in various ways.

The problem is, that the only experience that average person has is when they were at school themselves and this is hardly going to apply to today’s education system. It would also appear that the average working person would not have the time to spend on these matters either, so these juries may be made up of a very strange mix of “Ordinary” people.

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