Strange school letter

ukjoel

Does anyone know how much per head schools get.

I know GPs are paid about £100 a year per patient that they have on their books (even if the patient hasnt been seen in 20 years).

Do schools work the same way ie each kid draws in X amount of money with them from the govt?

Who is responsible for seeing how schools manage their budget?

Who decides what teachers earn - is it pay by perfromance, or just based on role and how long they have been in the job.

Cheers,

Poppy9

from the BBC site:

the average spend per pupil in Wales £5,595, compared to an average of £6,199 in England.

You should be able to go onto your LA site and see how much funding is given to schools. It will vary from school to school taking account of the size of the school, social deprivation etc.

While I have no problem with extra funding for children from poorer families etc. some children from poorer families in their local catchment school which has a low FSM entitlement will still lose out as an extra £500 for a handful of pupils will no doubt just be shared out amongst the school population in total as it would be difficult to target the extra money at them directly.

clearingout

bb999 wrote: »

Absolute rubbish. I don't see any posts on here advocating anything like this.

If you read my posts you will see that I believe ALL children should be treated equally - very Socialist I know - hardly designed to supress the poor.

as I said, equal opportunities isn't, and never has been, about treating people equally. Children from poorer backgrounds, for who knows what reasons but many we can guess at, don't do as well in school as children from less poor backgrounds. By targetting money at the poorest in society (those entitled to free school meals), it is expected that some extra help can be given to these children which might, if they're lucky, even up the playing field a bit. It's a crude way of doing things, yes, but the actual money involved is not so great that a middle class child in a middle class school is going to miss out as a result.

Treating poor children as equals alongside their middle class equivalents will, ultimately, result in 'supressing the poor'.

GobbledyGook

Subsidies like this actually allow children to be treated equally. They give the schools the funds to ensure that children from low income families get equal opportunity to go on day trips, to go to swimming lessons and the likes. They also ensure that children not from low income families do not "suffer" from a school's general budget being used to subsidise these opportunities for their classmates.

Treating children equally, imo, should mean giving children equal opportunities. Treating children exactly the same is incredibly unfair as it ignores the child and their circumstances.