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fanuc2013 Would the "local control" ensure schools use curriculae and syllabi sufficient to give students a fair chance of obtaining further-education or reasonable employment, which could be, or may have to be, anywhere else in the country?
In the UK and probably many other nations, schools do have some flexibility but must still use a fairly standard curriculum to minimum standards to meet those needs.
It may have become somewhat limited though thanks to an insistence on subjects under the "Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics" umbrella, plus cost-cutting that sadly often neglects the Arts. I do not know what is "Technology", nor what the "Engineering" might cover.
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Oddly though, the authorities here do not seem to act against unregistered "private schools" (some are dubious "faith schools"), parents who use so-called "home-schooling" (an absurd self-contradiction), and parents so wanting holidays on the cheap they take their children out of school for that week or fortnight in term-time. These are all of dubious legality, even downright illegal, and act
against the child's own needs, interests and ambitions. Some parents have been fined quite heavily for this truanting.
(The home is not a school; the standard of home teaching probably abysmal; the social aspects of school non-existent. The child taken away merely for its parents' off-peak beach or ski-slope fortnight, has then to try to catch up on a lot of lost work across many subjects.)
So avoid those mistakes.
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The aim of any decent school system is that pupils have the opportunity to the best of their own ability, to leave school with a wide range of knowledge, the ability to think for themselves, and with formal qualifications any employer, college or university anywhere in the country can recognise. Remember, it is
their future that matters, not that of the parent, teacher or some local-council committee.
So in wishing for local control, do please care for what you wish.
