Sir Spot of Borg wrote on May 7^th, 2012 at 1:50pm:


If you are going to fund education you give the same amount per pupil irrelevant of the type of school.
It's only fair.

SOB bases his entire argument on the definition of private, rather than on what is the most sensible way to fund our children's education.

freediver wrote on May 7^th, 2012 at 2:14pm:


The most sensible way is to just have public schools and no private schools and fund the public schools properly and educate the kids. Why are private schools even needed if the curriculum is the same anyway?

SOB

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The parents of private school kids pay taxes and therefore their kids are ENTITLED to the same Govt education dollar as the kids of the down trodden whose parents pay little or no tax.

They actually ONLY get roughly 30c / Govt $ with private fees making up the rest.

The parents of private school kids accept this INEQUALITY because firstly they want their kids to get educated instead of indoctrinated.

Secondly, because they happen to be the minority that pays the majority of tax and its the majority that pays the minority of tax that are represented in Parliament and therefore rule the roost they have to accept this blatant ripping off of their hard earned by the 'down trodden'.

Thirdly, Private education saves the Govt BILLIONS of dollars from the public purse.  If the parents of private school kids suddenly decided to transfer their kids to the Public system the Govt would have to find these BILLIONS of dollars EVERY year.....and as Swan is finding out that is bleeding difficult to do.

The opportunity cost of not subsidising private education would be cuts to lots of other pork barrelling schemes, infrastructure projects etc etc.

Maybe they'd have to cut your dole as well
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Sir Spot of Borg wrote on May 7^th, 2012 at 1:50pm:


Well, the government involves itself by prescribing the curriculum, for starters.

Secondly, many public schools are forced to spend a disproportionate amount time and energy on the children of the dregs of society who lower the standards inexorably. Public schools have no way of dealing with them. In a private school, paretnts would not tolerate the hijacking of their children's education by a bunch of Jonah Takaluahs.





Thirdly, it's not in the government's gift to ban parents from spending additional money on their children.

Finally, as others have pointed out, everyone pays taxes. The fairest thing would be for the government to allow parents to send their childen to any school, carrying the government funding per pupil with them. After all, it is the government that has made education compulsory, as well as the paying of taxes.

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So you are. They can go to public schools then.

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Can you clarify that please? What is the difference in the curriculum that makes 1 indoctrination and the other education?

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I am not on the dole

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This would be who? If you are born into a poor family you are forever tainted as "dregs"?

SOB

SOB you seem to be ignoring the elephant in the room here. If you want 'proper' funding for the public school system, how does it help if your very first move significantly reduces the funding per student?

Uncle Meat wrote on May 7^th, 2012 at 2:55pm:


why do they need to take pressure off the public system ?

The public system is a service provided by the government which is funded by tax payers.