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Another Gonski deadline …. : Comments
By Dean Ashenden, published 3/7/2013Even in the event of a Rudd miracle, and in the event of all states and sectors getting on board, and even in its now-attenuated form, Gonski will face serious obstacles.
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It's a shame that the old State schools are being assailed on many fronts. Their best students are being taken away by the selective schools on one hand, and wealthy private schools on the other.
It's also a shame that there are few people prepared to defend the State schools, apart from the ever-present teacher unions, whose arguments often seem heavy-handed and ideological ("Public Education" always being held up as some sacred idea and so on).
Educational funding is still a mess and a muddle. The Whitlam years promised fairness, but did little to simplify the systems of inequality. Howard made it easy for private schools to be set up and compete easily with the State systems, which labour under the dead hand of dinosaurs , notably in NSW and Victoria.
It makes anyone who cares about injustice want to despair.