Dimming down night classes

The Post Primary Teachers’ Association have just launched a YouTube video protesting National’s hugely unpopular cuts to night classes.

The video highlights the shortsightedness of the 80% cuts based on cost/benefit, pointing out that in the process of educating 220,000 learners a year New Zealand gets back over 30 times its investment in Adult Community Education in economic and social gains.

I wonder what the rate of return on that extra $35 million for private schools was worth…

Source: www.dimming.co.nz

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An online petition calling for Tolly to attend night classes in economics may be in order by the look of things.

I wonder what the rate of return on that extra $35 million for private schools was worth

0.5% return or less would be my guess. It seems to be the National (Party) Standard for giving them and their owners taxpayer money.

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