Public schools ask parents to make voluntary contributions because they need the funds…
State governments have consistently not met their funding targets for public schools. On current timelines – and provided future governments deliver the funds – schools will not have their full funding entitlements until 2034.
This puts school principals in a very difficult situation. Their schools are not properly funded by the government and there are limits to their ability to seek additional funds from parents.
2034? Do they really want our public education to fall further behind? I don’t understand how they can justify this.
well, its deliberately enshitifying education so concerned parents move their kids to private schools which reduces the public school demand. For a neo liberal government it makes sense, for an individual parents it makes senses, for society it’s a complete fucking debacle.
if they don’t and say we need to raise taxes instead, they get equal pushback.
Nearly every major political policy in Australia is a disaster; education, defence, health, housing, transport, taxation etc are all complete fucking debacles and can only hwy worse. ita why the stupid amongst us turn to ONP, they can blame muslims instead of the person looking back at them from the mirror.
Our public school fees have been reduced to almost nothing under South Australian Labor. And we get a sports voucher for the kids sports. None of it means tested. And low income families have school cards.
Unfortunately private schools are clearly still over funded and very influential in politics. I am sure they lobby heavily to keep public schooling slightly underfunded to push kids into their schools. Our premier is a Labor Right SDA Catholic bro so they aren’t getting their public funding cut.
I don’t mind making moderate voluntary contributions if they are being used for desirable but non-essential things. They are a trap if they are being used to fill a hole in state funding. Schools in poorer areas end up becoming highly disadvantaged.
We need to remind other Labor premiers in Oz that making public education funded properly as in SA can be done and we need public education workers and parents to get loud.
Oh, I wish public education in SA was funded properly. The costs to parents are good but schools often get shafted. Particlarly capital works like new buildings. The difference between a rural public school and one of the favoured city schools or a private school are still huge. They probably do what they can with the revenues they have but there is a lot of federal money going to private schools that could be redirected to state public schools where it would make a huge difference.
Do they really want our public education to fall further behind
YES! Republicans have been attacking public education for decades . They want to create a caste system with their kids getting taxpayer subsidized private schooling (because they are still made about desegregation) and the masses oppressed and stupid and forced to work for pennies at their businesses.
Working class people are going through some insane and scary times in your country. I wish for you that you truly become united and change the power structure to real representation and a real government of the people that restores your education, health and other essential services. The Australian working class is not as badly abused as in your country but we’re moving in that direction. Stay strong!
Republicans? Wrong Channel? LLM?
Didn’t notice the community this was in. Your right wing gets the same Murdoch propoganda though
I’m not disagreeing, it was just a misplaced sentence as written
Also, you got banned from memes@lemmy.ml for pointing out they can take everything as a comment about communism? Nice work
Yeah they are quick to jump to the defense of their favorite authoritarians.
Is that ban like highlighted in my profile or something? Or was it that memorable?
Ah, sorry for highlighting it like this
To be honest, from a single comment you could have been a bot so I scanned your comments and modlog
And to me it’s a bit memorable because I haven’t found lemmy.ml channels to be pleasant but it’s not something you know when you join Lemmy. I just slowly noticed my comments there frequently lead to large numbers of people disagreeing in ways I found unpleasant so now I don’t subscribe to channels from the instance and am pretty quick to block anyone from the instance
Anyway, I’m happy to delete the comment if you want. Just let me know
Oh it’s fine. I was just curious, like maybe is shown up in a power tripping mod post or something. I’ve now blocked the instance. I think I had on my Lemmy account, but was trying out piefed and I guess I missed it.
In year 9 my kid’s science class was just sitting in the library because the school didn’t have a science teacher. Meanwhile the private school down the road with a carpark full of BMWs with P plates builds a new auditorium or indoor pool every school holidays. And kids at both schools get equal amounts of government funding.
Shit’s fucked.
