(1) Parentocracy

• 1. One of the reasons why introduction of marketisation policies has heightened rivalry between diverse types of schools over the past 30 years is parentocracy.
• 2) Parentocracy - the notion that parents should have a significant say in the schools and education options for their kids.
• 3) Ball et al - parents are urged to view themselves as education consumers, with successful parenting being viewed as taking on school obligations.
• 4) It’s assumed to be a class-based issued even when marketisation is intended to produce a Parentocracy where all parents can express their decisions.
• 5) Tough and Brooks (2007) - Better-educated middle-class families are more likely to base decisions on school achievement. Additionally, schools’ use of covert selection restricts freedom of parentocracy.
• 6) Marxists believe that education’s goal is to affirm and replicate socioeconomic inequalities by creating a subservient class and workforce.
• 7) This means that education exists to prepare future generations for work, rather than to provide parents with the option and freedom to ensure good education for their children.
• 8) This proves that the adoption of marketisation policies has increasingly boosted over the last thirty years and the chance for parents to select schools for their children to ensure the brightest future for them.