While public school funding lags, principals of private schools are paid up to four times their state system counterparts.
Value for money? The princely salaries of private school prinicpals.
Most teachers would embrace a curriculum that nourished students instead of preparing them for neoliberal benchmarks. Most Australians would prefer to see excellence in a properly-funded state school system, not taking that public funding to give to private projects.
As we debate solving the outrageous overpayment of private schools and drastic underfunding of public, we must beware right wing figures disguising reactionary control as educational “choice.”
The Right’s war to control education
How is it Australia's PM gets paid more than America's to manage 25M people against 350M
Many
Australians, especially those struggling with the cost of living, will
be appalled at politicians' spending, as recently released parliamentary
expenditure figures show.
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