In the UK all private schools are called "Public", in the US, 'public' schools are state funded.reasonvemotion wrote:Why Private Education Shouldn't Get a Cent from Government
Catherine Deveny, an outspoken advocate of public education, tells us why she’s so passionate on the topic – and where she believes Abbott and Gillard are going wrong.
‘There is no question of injustice to public schools here,’ Tony Abbott told an independent education forum this week. ‘If anything, the injustice is the other way.‘’ Spoken like a true private school boy.
"People like Abbott assume everyone is rich, white, literate, middle class, straight, fully abled and fully functional, belonging to families with a wife/mother who nurtures and a father/husband who provides. They take for granted the head start provided by those solid foundations, which are not available to all students."
Anyone who drives past schools occasionally (let alone visits them frequently) would agree with Shaun Carney, The Age newspaper, that the ‘education facilities and learning opportunities at government schools are substandard compared with the elite private schools’.
A reader comments on this article and summed it up.
‘Tony Abbott needs to learn what injustice is. Injustice is families in Frankston North who can’t afford to send their children to school with lunch, who can’t afford uniforms, who can’t afford rent in what is already supposedly a low cost housing area.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard was no better at Monday’s ‘Suck Up To Independent Schools So We Get More Votes’ conference. Here’s her two cents:
‘I’ve never looked at a big independent (private) school in an established suburb and thought, That’s not fair’, she said. ‘’I look at a big independent school in an established suburb and think, That’s a great example.’
WTF and they are our elected leaders in Australia.
I would like to add, I did not vote for either.
As you from Australia I'm not sure what your position is here.
Can you clarify?
