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Five private schools spent as much on new facilities in one year as 3,000 Australian public schools
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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Private schools are a disgrace to the country and should be banned entirely.
Access to education should not depend on the financial lottery of your family, nor should we be funding this inequality.
People shouldn't be allowed to choose a better education for their children? Private schools aren't hurting anybody.
They should not, all children should have equal opportunities.
And they are, they take away from the public education in funding, in staffing, and in voter support.
Our society should not exist to cater to and benefit the wealthy.
Our society doesn't cater to them. They decided that public schools weren't good enough so they went and made their own. I completely agree with them, public schools do suck.
Our society entirely caters to the wealthy, that isn’t even up for debate.
And right, by them fucking off and using their wealth to create a counter-system they take away from the public system, and because the people with money (and actual influence) don’t use it, we don’t have the drive to fund it properly leading to it being shit.
Instead of wanting to leave the public system, you should be wanting the public system to be better.