Education Funding
It would be funny if it wasn’t so predictable. The original opponents of My School - the Greens, State teachers unions, public education spruikers and the like - who at first campaigned against publishing schools performance data claiming it would lead to the stigmatisation of selected schools, have now done a complete reversal.
Now, their line is that My School confirms what they have said all along - that private schools are overfunded, and that federal funding of independent schools is grossly unfair. From being condemned at first, My School has morphed into a Trojan Horse for tired old positions on independent school privilege and State school disadvantage.
Typically though, what the State education spruikers conveniently ignore is that My School offers as many insights about the fairness of public funding of State owned schools as it does about the traditional public versus private debate.
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This wretched Government simply must increase the funding for private schools. The more children we can get into private education, the better we, as a nation, will become.
There has been quite the furore over the figures revealed by MySchool 2.0 – and commentators have rightly pointed out that this Labor Government is using the politics of envy to further its ideological warfare against the wealthy.
Two points about the MySchool data leap out at one:
1. Private school students do not necessarily perform better on the literacy and numeracy tests.
2. It doesn’t matter.
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Glenn says:
What an outrageous piece of ideological propaganda from a wanna-be champion of oligarchy, entrenched class division and plutocracy. This site ought to be ashamed for carrying such profoundly incorrect and misleading tripe. Rhetoric designed to do no more or less then convince the ignorant that to further disadvantage the children… Read more »
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Amanda Coleman (mother) says:
I initially thought the same as you, Phil, when reading this. After giving it a second glance, I sort of had to laugh to myself a little about the article. I agree with Silverdragon: I don’t think this is supposed to be serious in any way. My son is attending… Read more »
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