I have long suspected that private education - for all the massive
fees and tiny class sizes - cannot deliver the goods. Seeing some of the ‘products’,
you might also be forgiven for thinking they are increasingly havens for
thickos too posh to be branded ‘special needs’.
Like their forebears, once
graduated such numbskulls get packed off to some far flung place where they can
crash about and wreck lives without news ever leaking back here and ruining the
family name. Certainly, there is always a risk they might retire here later and
enter Manx politics – and some have – but as they will have civil servants to
tie them into their chairs and spoon-feed them until they go totally gaga this
need not worry us unduly.
After spotting this bunkum (seehttp://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/sisters-fundraising-bed-bid-1-4733901)
about an exercise to further line the pockets of a dodgy overseas mission I am
surer than ever that my suspicions are correct. With even basic research they
would have discovered that this orphanage - like other fronts for evangelical
Christianity in India
- is technically a criminal organization.
It will do no useful work, and like similar organizations in
other ‘poor’ countries, actually prevent genuine local projects and government
agencies from getting international funding. Such scams are only tolerated by
the Indian government because previous attempts to crack down on faith-based
fraud (most notoriously Mother Teresa’s misogynist, homophobic fundraisers
posing as ‘homelessness shelters’ and ‘hospitals’) got them into trouble with
the powerful political allies of the hatemonger.
Any worries I had that my child could lose out against
privileged kids are over. If any parent is dumb enough to shell out several
grand a year for ‘teaching’ of this quality, they also deserve to pay for the
lifetime of care in a secure mental institution they have condemned little Tarquin or
Tabitha to when they grow up.
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