#privateschools

Her concluding para states the bleading obvious that somehow gets missed by our polies:

“This problem was not caused by public schools. It was caused by ideologically driven governments, snobbery, greedy churches, anxious parents and a pusillanimous bureaucracy. There are solutions. They could be implemented. Other countries have managed it perfectly well. All we need is a leader with some guts.”

#ChurchSchools #Snobbery #Greed #Bureaucracy #Education #publicShools #PrivateSchools #SchoolFundingInequity

AND, while on the subject of education institutions — were we not? Have a read of Jane Caro here reminding us that our society is not egalitarian at all and has a full on class warfare problem in education in our hands.

“The inequity is more profound than simply money. The “level playing field” quoted above is about much more than dollars and cents. What Australia has done over the past quarter century is create two parallel, publicly funded education systems: one with all the rights and one with all the responsibilities. Private schools can be public when it comes to the handing out of public money but private when it comes to everything else. They can charge any fees they choose. They can open schools wherever they like and refuse to open, or choose to close them, whenever they like. They can hire and fire whomever they like, because they have a statutory exemption to the Anti-Discrimination Act, and fight hard not only to hang on to it but to extend it via religious freedom bills. They can refuse to enrol and choose to expel whomever they like – or more pertinently, don’t like. They can also, if they want to, teach creationism and actively discourage girls from going to university – with the help of taxpayers.”

I urge you to read the article. And then get loud on social media because the whole thing sucks…

#AusPol #Education #SchoolFunding #PrivateVersusPublicSchools #PrivateSchools #PublicShools #JasonClareMP #AlboPM

Read more:

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2025/09/27/the-segregation-crisis-schools-funding

‘Privately educated tighten their grip on Britain’s most powerful roles’ - Sutton Trust, Elitist Britain 2025

https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/privately-educated-tighten-their-grip-on-britains-most-powerful-roles/

https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/elitist-britain-2025/

Sad to see little has changed since the #SuttonTrust's first Elitist Britain report back in 2019; let alone since 2021 when A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works In Elitist Britain was published:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/

‘The most powerful and influential people in the UK remain 5 times more likely to have attended a fee-paying school than the general population. Members of this leadership elite are also twice as likely to go to #university over five times more likely to have gone to a #RussellGroup university and 21 times more likely to have gone to #Oxford or #Cambridge than the general population. Just 7% of the general population attends #privateschools

#class #classwar #elitism #school #politics #education

Staffer resigns over inappropriate descriptions of students
By Andi Yu

St Michael's Grammar School in St Kilda says the staff member responsible for an annotated cast list for the Year 6 musical has resigned from their position.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/st-michaels-grammar-school-staff-member-resigns/105790000

#PrivateSchools #AndiYu

Australia is marching headlong into the American trap. Private schools are well funded fortresses of privilege, producing the “winners,” while public schools are left to carry the load with fewer resources, higher needs, and falling results. It’s a system that dumbifies the general population while propping up a narrow elite. If we keep going down this path, we’ll soon need to import our top professionals (just like the USA) because we’ll be too stupid to grow our own.
Now comes the federal government’s grand solution: the Teaching and Learning Commission, a new mega-agency to merge four education bodies into one. It’s being sold as the fix for falling Year 12 completion rates, declining literacy and numeracy, and a public system on life support. Targets are ambitious, lift completions, raise NAPLAN results, cut the literacy/numeracy gap.
But will this actually solve the problem ? Or just centralise power, add bureaucracy, and give ministers more distance from the classroom? Unless inequality is tackled headon and public schools properly funded and supported, no shiny new commission will save us. We can’t keep outsourcing education to private schools and expecting public education to limp along.
Australia doesn’t need another bureaucratic restructure. We need equity, investment, and faith in teachers. Otherwise, we’ll just become a nation of imported smarts and local mediocrity.

#education #australia #privateschools #publicschools #equity #inequality #teachers #literacy #numeracy #policy #boganNation #auspol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-09/teaching-and-learning-commission-education-minister-analysis/105751824

School cuts ties with STEM programs sponsored by weapons manufacturers
By Madeleine Rojahn

The Friends' School in Hobart — the world's largest Quaker school — says the weapons sponsorships do not align with the school's peaceful philosophy.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-15/friends-school-boycotts-stem-programs-weapons-manufacturers/105657330

#Education #PrivateSchools #MadeleineRojahn

An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/08/13/528554/texas-private-schools-hire-relatives-and-enrich-insiders-soon-they-can-do-it-with-taxpayer-money/

#Education #EducationNews #Houston #Local #News #Texas #PrivateSchoolVouchers #PrivateSchools #ProPublica #TexasSchoolVouchers #TexasSchools #TexasTribune

Ohio school districts are responsible for transporting private and charter school kids, leaving thousands of public school students behind

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/ohio-private-charter-school-buses

#CharterSchools #privateschools #education #publicschools #ohio #vouchers #GOP

“HMRC could claw back VAT from private school advance fee schemes, experts say. More than £500m deposited with schools upfront by parents hoping to avoid tax.” The rich really don’t like paying their taxes. #VAT #PrivateSchools

WA students who get D grade will still pass ATAR and graduate high school
By Kate Christian

The standard required for Year 12 students to pass ATAR subjects and achieve a WA Certificate of Education is lowered from a C to a D grade in a bid to encourage students to tackle harder subjects.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-05/bar-lowered-for-wa-year-12-students-to-pass-atar/105613924

#SecondaryEducation #StateandTerritoryGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #PublicSchools #PrivateSchools #KateChristian

https://www.europesays.com/uk/315083/ Charge VAT on private healthcare like independent school fees, Kinnock tells Reeves #Budget #Health #Healthcare #Labour #NHS #NHSPrivatisation #PrivateHealthcare #PrivateSchools #RachelReeves #Taxes #UK #UnitedKingdom #VAT

https://www.europesays.com/uk/210611/ Prince William, Kate Middleton make decision on Princess Charlotte’s future: report #Celebrities #Entertainment #KateMiddleton #KensingtonPalace #PrinceGeorge #PrinceLouis #PrinceWilliam #PrincessCharlotte #PrivateSchools #Royal #RoyalFamilies #RoyalFamily #Royals #Schools

https://www.europesays.com/2052152/ What Tax Returns Say About The Nation’s Financial Reality #2024TaxReturns #ConsumerSpending #CostOfLiving #EconomicContrast #FinancialDisparity #greece #GreeceNews #GreekEconomy #GreekNews #HouseholdSpending #IncomeInequality #LoanRepayments #LuxuryAssets #PovertyLine #PrivateSchools #PropertyOwnership #RealEstate #RentalHousing #TaxData #WealthGap #yachts #Ελλάδα #νεα

“No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils.” Well that’s a shame. Perhaps the tax should be raised to 40%. #Education #PrivateSchools #Privilege

#Trump signed a trio of #ExecutiveOrders on #education Wednesday seeking to control how schools teach about #race & #gender, direct more tax dollars to #PrivateSchools, & #deport pro-#Palestinian #protesters.

The flurry of action…tests the limits of #PresidentialPower. In each case, Trump is pushing to use the levers of government — sometimes in unprecedented ways — to force American #school districts, #colleges & #students to align w/his point of view.

#law #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/01/29/trump-education-orders-indoctrination-school-choice-antisemitism/

Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jan/14/private-school-run-in-south-london-linked-to-27-per-cent-rise-in-air-pollution #Privateschools #Airpollution #Environment #Education #Pollution #Schools #London #UKnews

Ad Astra, a private school for kids ages 3-6, opened right around the corner from Elon Musk’s massive corporate compound in Bastrop County, which already houses offices for SpaceX, the Boring Company and, soon, X (formerly Twitter).

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/01/13/510707/an-education-ecosystem-is-being-built-in-elon-musks-image-it-starts-in-rural-texas/

#Business #Education #EducationNews #News #Texas #AdAstra #BastropCounty #ElonMusk #PrivateSchool #PrivateSchools #TexasEducationAgency

Charter Schools Push Right-Wing Indoctrination at Taxpayer Expense
https://truthout.org/articles/charter-schools-push-right-wing-indoctrination-at-taxpayer-expense

* spread conservative ideology, Christian nationalism
* fast-growing sector of charter school industry engaged in indoctrination
* schools instructing children in white, conservative ideology

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #Project2025
#billionaires
#PublicEducation #SchoolChoice #SchoolVouchers #PrivateSchools #CharterSchools #HillsdaleCollege
#ChristianRight #antiLGBT #Chistofascism #transgenocide

U.S. lawmakers want Christianity in classrooms
https://apnews.com/article/trump-religion-school-ten-commandments-9159f412c4f47ad421551885093a4a22

* Trump/GOP support school choice
* expand taxpayer-funded vouchers for parents to send children to religious schools

Charter schools
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110608529417350253
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113153575049972534

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025
#billionaires #BetsyDeVos
#PublicEducation #SchoolChoice #SchoolVouchers #PrivateSchools #CharterSchools #HillsdaleCollege
#ChristianRight #antiLGBT #Chistofascism #transgenocide

Schools were closed in Rutherford County, #Tennessee yesterday while 4 inches of snow gently fell. But that didn’t cover the tracks of Caleb Tidwell and his book-banners from adding 6 more titles to the list of #BannedBooks in #PublicSchools during the previous day’s meeting. https://mainstreetmediatn.com/articles/murfreesboropost/rcs-board-removes-six-books-from-libraries/?pubid=murfreesboropost

In related news, our #nepobaby #MAGA Governor #BillLee is again pushing to divert tax dollars to #PrivateSchools. #Fascists do what fascists do. #Resist to #SaveAmerica.