My School 显示来自富裕家庭的孩子读公校的多过读私立学校

R2005

My School 显示来自富裕家庭的孩子读公校的多过读私立学校

My School to reveal wealthy families' public preference
Anna Patty and Dan Harrison
March 3, 2011

On the hop ... the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, speaks with the Turner School principal, Jan Day, as the Minister for School Education, Peter Garrett, looks on. Photo: Alex Ellinghausena
THE revamped My School website is expected to reveal that children from wealthy families are more likely to attend a public school than be educated in the private sector.

Geoff Newcombe, the executive director of the Association of Independent Schools NSW, said the new site, which will be launched tomorrow morning, would show that independent schools received more funding per student than government schools.

But it would also show a greater proportion of wealthy parents sent their children to public schools. ''There are more wealthy families attending government schools than independent schools,'' Dr Newcombe said.

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''This is going to raise the issue as to how long as a community can we continue to offer free education to those who can afford to contribute to the education of their children.''

Dr Newcombe said he was confident earlier problems with the website's reporting of financial data for private schools had been ''sorted out''.

Concerns about the inaccuracy of data delayed the site's launch, originally scheduled for late last year. The accounting firm Deloitte identified accounting errors, forcing the federal Minister for Education, Peter Garrett, to concede in November that the financial data for some private schools was inaccurate.

Dr Newcombe said the new financial data did not take into account ''the running of Saturday sport, extracurricular activities and longer running hours between 7am to 7pm'' at independent schools.

Mr Garrett will officially launch the new My School website at 10am tomorrow, but it remains uncertain whether it will ''go live'' earlier in the morning.

The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority will carry out tests on the website from midnight until it is confident that the launch will run smoothly.

The president of the NSW Secondary Principals Council, Christine Cawsey, said she had received few complaints from high school principals, who were yesterday given a preview of their school's data on the website.

''There don't seem to be too many surprises,'' Ms Cawsey said.

The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has predicted that financial information from the nation's 9500 schools on the website will ''smash'' public perceptions on education.

''I think we'll see some schools with very similar resources, very similar kids, and very different results, and that's going to be about the quality of practice in that school,'' Ms Gillard said.

''I think we'll also see some schools [with] similar kids, very different resourcing levels, very different results, and that's going to tell us something about the power of the money.''

bulaohu

原始链接呢？

taku

那是自然的，公立的总数高啊。

bulaohu

Geoff Newcombe是私校联盟的exec director，他的这句话真是典型的屁股决定脑袋的言论：''This is going to raise the issue as to how long as a community can we continue to offer free education to those who can afford to contribute to the education of their children.''

R2005

http://www.smh.com.au/national/e ... 20110302-1bexp.html

MEL888

how to define rich family??

nikita17

当然啦，公校好的地方房价也高呀。

三脚鼎

还是华人都冲私校去啦？！

sterlingbar

华人很多上私校说明华人家庭比较穷。

gorilla

原帖由 sterlingbar 于 2011-3-4 13:23 发表
华人很多上私校说明华人家庭比较穷。

要是大家都能这么想就不会有烦恼了

patrickzhu

原帖由 bulaohu 于 2011-3-4 10:26 发表
Geoff Newcombe是私校联盟的exec director，他的这句话真是典型的屁股决定脑袋的言论：''This is going to raise the issue as to how long as a community can we continue to offer free education to those who can a ...

布老虎高见，你是澳洲媒体里第一个“批判”Geoff的人，哈哈哈。

他的言论果然引来了不满，今天澳洲教师工会的Schools Organiser Glenn Fowler 撰文专门来批判他。

Private Schools Want to Abolish Free Public Education
Friday March 4, 2011

In an article published in the Sydney Morning Herald, Geoff Newcombe, Executive Director of the Association of Independent Schools of NSW, moves the debate about school funding into extremist territory.

The article previews the release of My School 2.0, and Newcombe is quoted as saying: "There are more wealthy families attending government schools than independent schools. This is going to raise the issue as to how long as a community can we continue to offer free education to those who can afford to contribute to the education of their children.”

In the same vein, Chris Middleton, principal of Sydney’s St Aloysius’ College, argues that “free public education for students of high socio-economic means is the ultimate form of middle class welfare”.

What exactly are these people saying? Allow me to translate.

In establishing a system of free, compulsory and secular education in Australia, Henry Parkes and his contemporaries got it wrong. In fact, every developed nation in the world got it wrong too.

The act of guaranteeing an education for each citizen has no bearing on a nation’s economic prosperity or social cohesion. The education guarantee provides no meaningful support for democracy.

Education is not a right: it is a privilege.

We cannot afford the luxury of a free education any more. The burden to the tax “payer” (a term with which I am becoming increasingly uncomfortable, preferring tax “contributor”) is too great and unsustainable.

Education is best delivered by private institutions who determine the moral and spiritual code for their students. Staff and students will be selected based on belief (or parental belief) as each private school sees fit.

Those who cannot afford to pay for their schooling don’t deserve anything more than a second-rate, bare bones, education “safety net”.

Parents with the means to chose private who send their children to public schools are spongers and parasites who are getting something for nothing. They don’t really love their children because they are not willing to make any sacrifices (or go further into debt) for them. They are asking tax payers to fund their freeloading whilst paying for their own children’s private education.

The call by public school advocacy groups for resourcing to meet student needs, in the context of the Schools Funding Review, promises to produce more and more outlandish statements from the private school lobby. Newcombe and Co. appear not to be content with the fact that Australian governments contribute more public money to private schools than any nation in the world apart from Belgium and South Korea. Do they really want Australia to be the first nation in modern history to do away with public education altogether?

suel

这个人说话不动脑筋，没有富人缴税那里可能建立起免费教育体制.

bulaohu

原帖由 patrickzhu 于 2011-3-4 22:01 发表

布老虎高见，你是澳洲媒体里第一个“批判”Geoff的人，哈哈哈。

他的言论果然引来了不满，今天澳洲教师工会的Schools Organiser Glenn Fowler 撰文专门来批判他。

Private Schools Want to Abolish Free Public Educati ...

谢谢夸奖，我明天上fairfax毛遂自荐去

patrickzhu

原帖由 bulaohu 于 2011-3-4 22:11 发表
谢谢夸奖，我明天上fairfax毛遂自荐去

先弄一个笔名

JuJu

原帖由 patrickzhu 于 2011-3-4 22:01 发表

布老虎高见，你是澳洲媒体里第一个“批判”Geoff的人，哈哈哈。

他的言论果然引来了不满，今天澳洲教师工会的Schools Organiser Glenn Fowler 撰文专门来批判他。

Private Schools Want to Abolish Free Public Educati ...

NND, 搞不好以后会有个规定, 中产阶级以上不准送公校占用免费资源, 不然就得交education levy, 就象那个medicare levy似的.

请大家自觉.

patrickzhu

原帖由 JuJu 于 2011-3-6 00:35 发表
NND, 搞不好以后会有个规定, 中产阶级以上不准送公校占用免费资源, 不然就得交education levy, 就象那个medicare levy似的.
请大家自觉.

呵呵，有这个建议人还挺多啊。

rw09

很有可能，那些一般家庭想进了私立，周围的同学都是有钱人，将来机会自然多，然后进去一看，有相当数量的人也都是抱着这样的想法，结果集体凹凸了

wdmznzd

这里富裕家庭的标准是什么？

Y叔

意思是穷人都上私校了？(monkey1)

gorilla

原帖由 wdmznzd 于 2011-3-6 16:28 发表
这里富裕家庭的标准是什么？

足迹的平均水平: 年薪20万

Y叔

原帖由 gorilla 于 2011-3-6 16:34 发表

足迹的平均水平: 年薪20万

平均水平怎么能算富裕？

gorilla

原帖由 ys98 于 2011-3-6 16:37 发表

平均水平怎么能算富裕？

在足迹不算到了外面就算的。

amon54

哦，这样子啊