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07 Mar 05:45am

Filed under: Internet, Myschool, Myschool .20, Online Chatter, Society

My school is better than yours - it’s the seesawing debate that never ends when it comes to the class divide over state versus private education.

If only voters and Cabinet would fall into line so easily. Pic: Tony Phillips

Rather than helping to resolve the argument, the launch of the revamped My School website on Friday – for the first time allowing parents to compare funding levels for individual schools – has drawn criticism from both state and private school supporters and has only deepened the row.

Dispelling the old bang for your bucks theory, the site found the most elite private schools have at their disposal at least twice the income of the average government school, but their students do not necessarily perform any better in national tests than their state school system cousins.

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Mahhrat says:

07:47pm | 07/03/11

@Dave: So you refuse to go find out for yourself, sitting back from the anonymity of the internet and deriding those who might just know better, why…because you can’t be arsed challenging your OWN proofless opinions? Piss off buddy, I don’t write peer reviewed modern anthropology pages so you can… Read more »
Against the Man says:

06:53pm | 07/03/11

Well done acotrel, bring up past Lib leaders when you can’t defend the current fake ALP PM. It really works against you if you haven’t figured it out by now. HaHa! Read more »

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