Independent Schools
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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There’s nothing new in the Australian Education Union’s campaign against the Liberal Party and it’s attack on Tony Abbott. During the Howard government years (1996-2007) the AEU donated millions of dollars and ran marginal seats campaigns at every election to destroy the conservatives and to get the ALP elected.
The AEU is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and at the 1995 national teacher unions’ conference, the then federal Minister for Employment, Education and Training, Simon Crean, was quoted as saying: “In 1993 the support of the unions was crucial to the ALP’s return to Government”.
There’s also nothing new about the union’s argument that Catholic and independent schools do not deserve funding and that only state school students deserve taxpayer support.
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Geoffrey Tobin says:
I like Peter’s voucher idea. It’s been floating around Canberra for decades, but never implemented. One concern, though: will parents accept responsibility for choosing the school? Or will the government be blamed for “wasting billions” on the voucher scheme because some parents chose badly? Read more »
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Fiona says:
So KH would you send your children to the local state school when (a) their academic results are significantly below average across pretty much every category and every tested year level and (b) the parents there that DO actually care about the quality of their child’s education are desperately trying… Read more »
The Melbourne Storm Rugby League team has just been caught out paying topline players above the salary cap to win premierships. It is an unsavoury practice also adopted by elite schools in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne often with financial support from wealthy past students.
Some parents and headmasters associated with elite schools are worried by the continuing practice of sports scholarships. Leading schools are going all out to win in a range of sports including rugby, Aussie Rules, swimming, netball and rowing. Scholarships are awarded to talented sports performers. Schools seek high performing sports people from around Australia and for Rugby also from New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
The recipients of these scholarships are intended to influence the size, weight and skills in school sport and improve the school’s chances of winning.
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Alan Barry says:
the public sytem has been ruined by immigration. Parents are removing their kids in droves Quite simply, the public system is dangerous to your health. Shame as I am a product of the public system and it was good then Read more »
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Alan Barry says:
quote ’ but what’s the difference between a sporting scholarship, an academic scholarship or a music scholarship?” When was the last time you were monstered by a polynesian violin player? Read more »
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