Infuriating. In this form, private education is an absolute cancer.
Private schools also receive the bulk of their revenue from private contributions and fees.
(Plus another $8k one-off fee to apply/enrol a child)The article is glossing over the fact that the crazy amount of money this school has is coming from parents.
$32,000 to $47,000 per year per kid pays for a lot. Assuming these fees were frozen for the next 13 years (which they obviously won’t be), it’d cost a parent $525,284 per kid to send them to this school. Plus all the other costs like uniforms, books, excursions etc.
Some people can afford this.
Sounds like a good reason to tax wealthy families more, let all children’s education benefit from that wealth.
Private schools are a disgrace to the country and should be banned entirely.
Access to education should not depend on the financial lottery of your family, nor should we be funding this inequality.
They should not be banned. However, they should not receive public funding.
No, they should be banned.
Education should not be divided by the haves and have nots.
I agree. Most of the stats and studies show that public schools.in wealthier areas do equivalent to private schools. The demographics seem to be more important than the school. I don’t think you should tell parents how they educate their kids, or how they spend their money.
We shouldn’t try to dismantle private education. We should elevate public education so that it’s seen as a waste of time. We should also not be funding private schools.
To take your analogy further, should we ban supermarkets? Children should also not go hungry. Why not make it so everyone eats the same thing, from a coop shop, with no fees. Of course not.
To take your analogy further, should we ban supermarkets? Children should also not go hungry. Why not make it so everyone eats the same thing, from a coop shop, with no fees. Of course not.
I’m down for that, beats getting price-gouged by those fuckers and we don’t need shelves with 20 different versions of lemonade, 16 different self-raising flours, etc.
As long as private education exists, it will be a threat to public education and cannot be allowed.
Private education is only a threat to public education when it’s not as good. There is a finite supply of funding allocated to education. Spending less on students that pay their own way by choice and more on students that need it seems a better use of resources.
With that same analogy, we would have to ban tutors, online courses, extracurricular activities etc too, I assume?
Or in my equivalent analogy, restaurants, farmers markets, independent food shops, butchers, greengrocers, cafes etc.
No, we don’t need 20 choices for every product, but the reason supermarkets price gouge is a lack of competition. You’re calling for less competition, completely at odds with your stated goal.
Private education exists to be at odds with public education. As long as it is around, rich people will try to use it and when they are using it they will not have a reason for public education and dismiss it’s importance. Not letting money be a factor in access to education at all seems the best outcome, and we have more than enough money for education if we actually wanted to use our national resources effectively instead of letting them be sold off for corporate profits.
I’m calling for no competition, access to education or food isn’t a game where your goal is to get the most money out of people, it’s about providing for citizens needs in life.
People shouldn’t be allowed to choose a better education for their children? Private schools aren’t hurting anybody.
They should not, all children should have equal opportunities.
And they are, they take away from the public education in funding, in staffing, and in voter support.
Our society should not exist to cater to and benefit the wealthy.
Our society doesn’t cater to them. They decided that public schools weren’t good enough so they went and made their own. I completely agree with them, public schools do suck.
Our society entirely caters to the wealthy, that isn’t even up for debate.
And right, by them fucking off and using their wealth to create a counter-system they take away from the public system, and because the people with money (and actual influence) don’t use it, we don’t have the drive to fund it properly leading to it being shit.
Instead of wanting to leave the public system, you should be wanting the public system to be better.
