freediver wrote on May 23
rd, 2024 at 6:43am:
Frank wrote on May 22
nd, 2024 at 9:59pm:
Gordon wrote on May 22
nd, 2024 at 9:40pm:
Primary schools in NSW are pretty good.
Secondary schools are an abject failure and are totally propped up by the coaching industry.
People love the say how the kids with the best ATARs in NSW come from Govt selective schools but it's a total fraud because their parents pay for coaching to a financial level rivaling private school fees.
True. Selective schools are hugely rorted by Asians. Coaching colleges for Asians are huge. Selective schools are full of their products.
Two of my sons went to private schools, one to a selective school. The brown kids were pointing to him as a rarity: a smart white kid because the coaching colleges where the Asians all go are full of tinted kiddies , Monday to Friday until 9, 10 pm. So they thought white kids were less inteligent because they didnt see any at those colleges and saw only three white kids in a class of 30 in the selective school.
That's not a rort. That is the intention. If you put in the effort, you get to go. Even smart kids have to work hard.
It is a rort, a distortion, a manipulation.
My daughter might not get into the top class, but at least I know she's had a childhoodSecuring a spot in the prestigious program is a numbers game — and with only 1,700 places for some 11,000 applicants, the odds are stacked against them.
While the OC stream was designed to give children a classroom environment where they could excel, in recent times, it seems the classes are full of those children who have excelled at sitting a test.It means children (or rather, their parents) are forced to up the ante, forking out exorbitant fees for tuition colleges to get exam ready.
"Parents can spend more than $20,000 a year on preparation for [opportunity class] or selective high school tests," NSW Department of Education secretary Mark Scott remarked in 2017.
And they do.
At our local tuition college, intensive coaching holiday workshops cost $100 a day or more, depending on how many hours the children attend.
If the intention of the OC and selective stream classes was to give children from disadvantaged backgrounds a boost, then that has certainly gone out of the window.
There has been much talk about overhauling the test so it could not be coached.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-19/opportunity-class-nsw-children-coaching-c...https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-26/why-we-dont-need-more-selective-schools/8...