Bulk funding of schools was put to bed 2000

Hold to ransom the country of !new Zealand if every teachers at state schools send children home during the week.

Parents working then have to take time off.

It is the trim tap that turns the rudder that turns the supertanker.

So we have not seen schools change to meet changing needs.

How would I change matters in New Zealand

Both parents need to work and 7.30am to 6.30 is a good 11 hour working day with traffic and packing considerations.

So a school needs to be ready to take a child in at 7.30am in the morning in some but not all cases hold the child to 6.30pm for pick up.

1. School needs to cater for the needs of the child over that time.

2. If parents are late or held up the child needs to have options to a boarding house.

3. Meals need to be catered for.

So what we have is school teachers rolling in at 9am and finishing in a wet day at 2.30pm.

This is 2.5 hours short in the morning and four hours short in the evening for a total of 6.5 hours.

Not expecting school teachers to meet and greet children at 7.30am as teachers are professionals and need 14 weeks paid holiday per year. So other staff need to look at this 6.5 hour time frame.

What buildings are needed? Well all schools must have a food court dinning facility. Breakfasts and dinners. They can be small in some schools and in other need to take 1/2 the meals for the enrolled number of students which is large.

And overnight accomodation on all schools may only be for a few working parents with special needs. However a place to gather students to do home work, sports team, and preparation for the next day is needed.

All communities need to rally around this to provide all schools with some form of semblance of this structures. Start and it will form fully over time.

What are the pay offs?

Parents have a one stop shop for work compensation.

It is currently up to Oscar programs in the holidays to keep parents are work.

Idea situation is 6 hours school for any student. But these adjuncts are not school but extensions of then care facility that grandparents did in years gone by.

So their is our clue to where we get competent staff for these extra 6.5 hours.

Retirement income is not means tested and it should stay that way. But a roaster to aid children in learning to read and write by the over 65 years old must be drawn up. People can buy their way out of it and others can double what they get in retirement income for a full time with over time. 

Status quo can not stand

Children living in cars is not permissible

Parent in part time work because education is not offered from 7.30am to 6.30pm is empoverishing children and families.

Old people are not being invited to pass on skills to the younger generation in a formal way of reading and writing, sport, arts and crafts, wood work, work ethic, general counciling.

So let the discussion start. Comment and say how you feel change in schools needs to proceed?