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Australia’s frighteningly unequal funding system favours private schools, argues Jane Caro. How can we fix it? (theconversation.com)

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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.

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[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 0 points 5 days ago

My only argument/retort is that with a wealth tax of 99%, it would completely, thoroughly and spectacularly fund for the production of large, public boarding schools with twice enough teachers to have low teacher-student ratios, other staff to assist with hygiene and food, etc so that the children were put into exceptionally good boarding schools.

Even if this hypothetical school cost $500M per year to run, it would be worth it to make sure absolutely no children are left behind and with the assistance and means to pull themselves out of poverty.

Collectively, we could be raking in hundreds of billions of dollars per year for these schools, free tertiary education, free public health. We don't need to divide ourselves between imaginary lines of difficulty when making sure our children are educated.