Okay, so the last post was trying to make the point that buildings matter. Not to be grande and unnecessary, but to be inspiring and relevant. I stand by that and don't want this post to be read as an argument for a race to the bottom.
An old school friend Toby Tanser is applying this logic to the construction of schools in Kenya through his charity Shoe 4 Africa
The question for me about school build isn't so much about cost savings as where those cost savings go. Let's imagine we give the budget to a UK or US school and offer the option for them to play with the design and donate a certain proportion to help build a school in Kenya through pupil-led ideas. . . .
My wife taught in Namibia for 2 years and I was amazed how far a few hundred pounds go - in one case £400 was enough to build a whole library for a rural primary school. Now let this factor in to school planning and we might see a global connection based on expansive thinking rather than protectionism.
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