“At present, public school education is partly a training in class prejudice and partly a sort of tax that the middle classes pay to the upper class in return for the right to enter certain professions”
George Orwell, 1941 (English “public” schools are private schools)

Look what just arrived! Out May 5.

Jane Caro didn't miss here, every word of it true:
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

This is so insane. Public education needs a massive boost, not cuts. Almost all non-gov schools are religiously affiliated in some way- why are we outsourcing education to religious orgs? Education is compulsory- we should have pride in and strengthen our secular public schools, not undermine them.

Unis are no longer institutions of education & learning, they’re corp sausage factories owned by big business, with capitalist ideology expected to be central to all depts!
Used to be that businesses trained their workers (except professions), now they’ve shifted the cost onto taxpayers & students.

Your regular reminder that every year the Australian people subsidise private schools to the tune of $22 billion while the public school down the road from you will be waiting another decade for its bare minimum funding.

ICYMI- my #publiceducation cartoon from yesterday's @australia.theguardian.com

This is the stupidest policy ever. Aside from the grotesque inequity of it, it'd just encourage every taxpayer to send their kids private to minimise or eliminate their taxes. Imagine being able to send your kids to a $20- $50,000 school and having the fees deducted from your tax bill. Insane.

lol why did I take college econ courses. Or 7th grade pre-algebra. I wonder how long the CEA PhDs toiled on this model.