1987. Különkiadvány, 1987.10.01 / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
tbe main body of "untalented" atudents. Tbe standards tre Bet by students vitb good cultural and financial backgrounds, able and viliing to learn alsó outside the scbool. Tbe acbool doee nőt let througb the sieve, or merely tolerates, anyone vho does nőt bave auch a bead atart.- In tbe "better" residential districts of our cities and of Budapest in particular, tbe free rchool provides Services tbat ezceed basic education, vbile elsevbere it is unable to maintain even tbe basic level. Tbis inequality is built intő our educational system, vitbout requiring the beneficiaries of tbe advantages to pay fór tbe additional Services of vbich they avail themselves. The myth of universal free education equally available to every child is undermining the quality of basic education and is granting free privileges to tbose vho could afford to pay fór them.- Whetber priváté schools or State scbools provide additional Services, tbey should cbarge the full price to anyone requiring sucb Services. There should be no tuition fee only fór basic education. Foundation grants and scbolarships ougbt to enable alsó tbe ambitious cbildren of poor families to attend scbools tbat offer more than tbe average curriculum.- Tbe capacities freed in this manner should be used to improve tbe grades in basic education. Tbe goal ougbt to be to bave every normál child ma6ter tbe level of knovledge tbat can be set as a universal requirement. Tbe school must concentrate nőt on competition, bút on giving tbe average student a tborough background.- Let the remedial school be converted intő a 10-year one, during vhich time it vould have to provide normál generál education. Students vishing to continue tbeir studies vould be able to do so alsó here, upon completing tbe eightb grade.- Contributions to foundations belping the children of poor and unskilled parents continue their studies, on the model of the NEKOSZ [National Association of People's Colleges], should be encouraged (througb income-taz deductions, fór ezample). Tbe State, too, could e6tablish email colleges of tbis type; by, among other tbings, using fór this purpose tbe buildings and money available from cutbacks in tbe netvork of institution6 cáring fór cbildren vho have been placed in the custody of the State. There must be strict regulations imposing restrictions on piacing children in the custody of the State. The arbitrary actions of the public guardiansbip authority are causing countless family tragedies. It is necessary to start out from the principle that the home must be a better piacé fór cbildren tban an institution, as long as tbe family is able to function and to take care of tbe children. Piacing children in tbe cu6tody of tbe 6tate, on the initiative of the authorities, should be limited to the folloving instances.- Vhen the children have been abandoned at birth; or vhen botb parents are in prison or deceased, and no relative is viliing to assume responsibility 4
