Tomorrows Schools 1989

By Tracey, Max and Jennifer.

What is Tomorrows schools?

• Marketing• Individual capital (Funding/raising own

money)• Social Status/Class• Affected by political status

What is wanted from the government?

“ The government’s objective, broadly expressed, is that every person whatever his level of academic ability, whether he be rich or poor, whether he live in town or country, has a right, as a citizen to be a free education of the kind for which he is best fited and to the fullest extent of his powers”

- AJHR, 1939

Pros vs ConsPros:• Schools have autonomy.• Public is open to free

education.• Control over own school.

(Private)• Incentives (Scholarships)

Cons:

• Reproducing social class• Higher decile schools can

afford better advertising and resources.

• Decile is perceived as how well a school’s achievement is.

• Isn’t equal opportunities.

Historical Timeline

1967

Neglected and Criminal Children act

Native Schools

1840

Treaty of Waitangi

1877

Education Act

1989

Tomorrow’s schools

1900

Extremes

• New Zealand’s education swung like a pendulum from one extreme to the other. Eg. 1867 left side politics-1989 right side politics.

• Tomorrows schools were centralized.