This article by economist Ross Gittins explores the funding disparity between public and private schools – and the reasons behind it. The article goes into the history of our education system, through decisions made by successive governments that have given us our current 2-tiered system. Ross explores the unfairness of this system, and the problems of social division and inequity it creates.
The article begins:
When one of the most privileged and oldest private schools in Australia, The King’s School… has to be ordered by the NSW government not to spend public money on a plunge pool at its headmaster’s residence, that’s when you know there’s something very wrong with the way federal and state governments are dividing their funding between public and private schools.
