School ranking

Why must we rank our schools?

Each year, our schools are ranked based on the results of their students, also taking into consideration other factors (of which I don't really know much about... but that is because of my ignorance). It is actually hoped that parents and students will use this ranking to help them find a school that suits them. Of course, in my opinion, this just creates competition between schools, and let's just hope that such competition is for the good of the students. I mean, when teachers are focusing more on how to get the school ranked better, rather than focusing on how to better educate their students, we will have a problem. After all, the reason we have schools is to have places to educate our future generations.

One suggestion is to do away with the ranking. Publish data on the schools as usual, but without giving them a rank. Publish the data in alphabetical order. Put in data regarding the performance of the school in terms of academic performance of the students, the club activities offered (and those that the school are good at), plus any other relevant information. The duty given to out teachers is to educate, not come up with ideas to improve the working environment in schools.