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Essay / Decile System Case Study - 1535
By labeling schools from decile 1 to decile 10 as is the case today, it instills the belief that your child will not receive as good an education as you in a bottom decile school. in a top decile school. This prejudiced way of thinking has developed into something that is colloquially known as “white flight” or “geography error.” White flight, or geographic error, occurs when sufficiently wealthy families intentionally move their child into a higher decile school block. This therefore improves one community at the expense of another community. As a result of this manipulation of communities due to misconceptions about decile rankings, wealth becomes even more concentrated around higher decile schools. This leaves even less wealth for bottom decile schools (46th Legislature Committee on Education and Science, 2003). Furthermore, Gordon (2015) observes that lower decile schools have seen their role diminish over the past decade, while higher decile schools have become larger due to the exodus of wealthier families. This exodus only obscures the mesh blocks of lower decile schools. The fewer students attending a particular school, the less funding there is