We all want good teachers for our children but how do you recognise one. Data from progressive PISA studies keep telling us that Australia lags behind in academic achievement. In truth, Australia has not dropped in the PISA data but other countries have powered ahead of us. What do they do better than us?
A main issue with the Gonski funding will be how the SES is calculated and applied. Being a very blunt tool based on postcodes, it will be useful to know how it will be applied to the many schools in poor areas that charge high and very high fees and have huge assets such as Geelong Grammar located in Corio, Victoria. Clearly, not all people in a poor postcode are poor.
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We hear about “Kids before politics” when there is so much horse-trading and meaning-less mud-slinging going on, it is hard to say whether we have ended up with a donkey or a stallion in last night’s passing into law of the so-called Gonski2.0 funding.
Have you come across people who do not send their kids to school and wondered how that works? What do they do and what is involved? I will look at homeschooling, distance education and flexible option available from independent schools.
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Many parents are wondering whether their kids would be better off at a private school. Are private schools better? Most people tend to assume you will get something extra for your money, but what is it and is it what you are after. This is what you need to know.
