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Separatists at the school gates : Comments
By Mercurius Goldstein, published 7/12/2007Private schools are finished. In their place, we have separatist schools.
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You claim that schools ‘have never been better resourced than they are today’. If this is so, please explain why Victorian teachers are paid more than $31,000 less than in 1975 relative to average male ordinary time earnings, why the secondary pupil-teacher ratio is now 11.9:1, compared with 10.6:1 in 1990 and 10.9:1 way back in 1981, why the superannuation contribution has been cut from a notional 21 per cent of salary up to 1988 to 9 per cent today and why school support centers no longer even exist. Where are all these resources? Please also give me a reference to the evidence that shows that ‘boys are still leaving less able to read and write than they were a generation ago’