Getting back to the article...It states "comprehensive state high schools have become schools of last resort. By 2030 we will have more of the same. For most schools, it will be a pattern of private affluence and public squalor. And instead of attacking privilege, Federal Labor governments have entrenched it." I have to agree that this is what many parents fear - While I believe this view is way too pessimistic YET- as the reality is that comprehensive state high schools in middle class areas are NOT schools of last resort (even the Myschools website, flawed as it is, will show you that). However there is an increasing problem of equity of resources between public and private schools - in the disability area for example, read this -
www.saveourschools.com.au/funding/nsw-parliament-report-rejects-private-school-claims-on-funding-for-students-with-disabilities