Save Public Money: Make Private Schools Public
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Save Public Money:
Make Private Schools Public
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
PRESS RELEASE 635#
Save Public Money:
Make Private Schools Public
For the DOGS, the abandonment of a Gonski voucher system masquerading as a ‘Needs’ policy by the Turnbull/Birmingham government is no surprise. With memories of the 1973 Schools Commission fiasco, DOGS have a sense of déjà vu.
The private sectarian sector have never given up their own privileges for the less advantaged. Their objectives are and always have been : Power, wealth, and children of the wealthy – in that order. Meanwhile, religious educators and their wealthy clients only pay minimal tax.
The only way to contain their greed is to give State Aid to State schools only.
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Malcolm Turnbull: Same Vinegar in Glossy Bottle
Tony Abbott’s $30 billion cut to schools locked in.
In the last 150 years Public Education has survived because its Founding Fathers in the nineteenth century identified and solved at least two of its major problems.
Problem One was financial security.
Problem Two was the administrative problem.
The only way forward is to go back and solve these problems again: withdraw State Aid to private religious schools and re-establish a committed and experienced centralised administration.
The captain of an elite school in Sydney’s upper North shore, Sarah Haynes went off script to tell it as it is in the elite school’s bubble of ‘business-like’ operations, with an image that could be ‘unhealthy’.
The question for taxpayers is: should their millions be going to an elite school which charges parents $28,000 for an ‘unrealistic’ education in which images mean more than realities?
Parents may be stupid to spend unwisely. But should taxpayers be constantly asked to send good money after bad? When good money should be ut into good public schools, not bad elitist ones?
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ROSS GITTINS
AGREES WITH DOGS ON HARPER REVIEW RECOMMENDATIONS
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PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT PEDDLES LIES AND EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS:
WHY ?
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Privatisation of Public Education, IBAC, the Auditor General, - and Corruption
Back to basics- DOGS note that a democracy, as opposed to an oligarchy, or a plutocracy has
‘ The application of any public interest test would see a strong case to remove competition as a guiding or organising principle for the provision of education.’ AEU Submission to the Harper Committee
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THE HARPER REPORT, THE GST AND PRIVATISATION OF PUBLIC EDUCATION