According to a BBC report, based on findings by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry Commission, one of Scotland’s top private schools failed to protect its students from sexual and physical abuse. The school’s name is mentioned in the BBC report, but we won’t write it here. Our aim is to say something other than punishing the schools. If there’s anything that warrants punishment, the relevant ministry can intervene.
When you say “private school,” almost everyone in the world immediately thinks of money. There are quality schools, but they cost more. Money determines the quality of these schools as well. Where money reigns supreme, there can be relative quality, but the main goal is to make money before quality. The money earned can then be spent on quality. In Scotland, these fee-paying schools failed to protect children from sexual and physical violence because their priority is to collect money from families to protect their children. Families may have completely abandoned supervision, assuming that their children are safe and secure when sent to these private and supposedly high-quality schools. Because children are sent to these schools primarily for quality education and then for protection against internal and external abuse.
Where money reigns supreme, there is rarely a second value besides money. Those who seize control of money disregard other elements unless absolutely necessary, and only when factors that make earning money difficult do they begin to impart quality.