Australia’s schooling system is among the most highly segregated in the OECD. Public schools educate the majority of disadvantaged students, while there is concentrated advantage in private schools.
This situation can be attributed, in large part, to our school funding arrangements.
A really informative article that explains how we got to where we are and what we can do about it. Australians must demand a fair and more intelligent system.
Agreed. Always thought this, never understood why private schools get anything from government. How’re we funding private education but whingeing about stuff like the NDIS or the public school system suffering? I’m going to guess that public school teachers are leaving the job at a higher rate than private so maybe the money could help retain some good teachers and resources that support them to be able to stay in the job without burning out for the scummy public kids (/s)?
Absolutely agreed.
All the best teachers leave for better pay (who wouldn’t in this fucked economy) and it’s the public schools that are left to suffer.
The wealthy fear an educated public, thats why there has been decades of coordinated political attacks against the public schooling system through underfunding/defunding, mismanagement, and archaic schooling systems/structures that haven’t been functionally updated in centuries.
And now the working class has seen what the wealthy are doing with their ill-gotten gains and we need to put a stop to it. Putting a 99% wealth tax on them would pay for the singular best education system in the globe ten-fold over. Imagine what else we could do if the wealthy and their companies were taxed fairly.
What we’ve seen happen is by design, and everyone’s had a gutful of it.