alt Hacker NewsPrestigious boarding schools - the schools that I’ve been writing about - need not bother with teachers outside that top 25%.
Non-selective government schools, like all public services, have inevitably become largely concerned with social work; teachers in those schools, regardless of their ability, have to respond to parents immediately.
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> need not bother with teachers outside that top 25%.
To simply "not bother" with lower-quality teachers sounds like you find it easy, as an institution, to determine teachers' quality. That seems far from a solved problem, for teachers and indeed most employees in general. You can pick a particular metric, of course, but then people will try to game it, and in teaching, there seems to be a lot of room for gaming metrics...
Yes nothing bad has never happened in a prestigious boarding school, just because they charge more money, especially to kids of rich people.
After all rich people and their rich kids never do anything wrong /s
> teachers in those schools, regardless of their ability, have to respond to parents immediately.
Or else what? Their union will hold them to account? Their colleagues? Their administration?
I have two kids in such public schools and I can’t think of anything I’d ask of a teacher that would require a same-day response let alone an immediate one.
If I need an immediate response, it’s not likely a topic I should be taking to a teacher in the first place. Their job is to teach, not to monitor for inbound comms from parents.