@my*mum wrote:
All this extra funding - it's the cream - it's what makes it even better, not the flour to bake the cake.
You still haven't read the recommendations or understood what the Gonski report is about have you?
It's not about EXTRA funding. It's not about people wanting more ENTITLEMENTS. It's not about providing extra services or programs. It's not about parents taking responsibility/action for their kids education and moving them to schools that suit them better.
It is about bringing our education standards up to an acceptable level. ACCEPTABLE.
It is about ensuring kids get fair and equitable education regardless of geography. Regardless of socio economic circumstances. Regardless of size of classrooms.
Why? Because our education funding went off course about 2 decades ago.
And the gross result is schools that have been SEVERELY underfunded, teachers that are OVERWHELMED and UNDEREDUCATED, resources that are NON-EXISTENT.
The net result is that the education standard of our kids in public schools is so poor that we now have a generation of kids who cannot read and write and count to satisfactory levels as set out by OECD standards.
Yet at the same time we have poured more money and resources into a private system that didn't need the funding in the first place.
The disaster this has created is a massive imbalance between kids who have the luxury of parents who can afford (financially or geographically) to send their kids to a private school as opposed to children who are leaving high school with a reading age of 12.
So unless you are advocating that education is only for those children who are fortunate enough to come from rich, white skinned, city based parents then I suggest you read the findings in the Gonski report so that you understand what is going wrong in our education system today and then you might actually stop talking nonsense.
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