The "gap" between private and public schools in Australia has increased by 6 times! The truth about Chinese parents sending their children to private schools

But you may also find in another school not far away, old carpets that have been worn out in the classroom, water seepage and aging ceilings, and cracked concrete structures.

In fact, many Chinese actually choose to immigrate to Australia for their children's education and future.

-and in this country, the boundary between "rich schools" and "poor schools" is so different.

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"pyramid" Australian education system poles

we have reported in the 2019 time , From 2013 to 2017, the average annual income level of 8,500 schools in Australia showed that compared with the 3 billion Australian dollars spent by the richest 1% schools in Australia, the sum of the funds spent by the poorest 50% schools was only 2.6 billion Australian dollars.

However, the number of students attending these "poor" schools is almost five times that of the former.

Among them, the top 4 richest schools spent more on new facilities and renovations than the poorest 1,800 schools combined.

They include: Wesley College, Haileybury College and Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne,And Knox Grammar School in Sydney.

These schools cost a total of 402 million Australian dollars, and only less than 13,000 students are enrolled here.

[Wesley College]

income of A $ 104.6 million

expenditure: A $ 96.7 million

government funding expenditures : $31,000

The school’s large-scale redevelopment project includes a $21 million music school, $16 million boarding facilities, a $2.3 million visual arts and design district, and $2.5 million. Used for the renovation of the Wesley Houseboat Project.

[Haileybury College]

income: A $ 98.1 million

expenditure: A $ 103.5 million

government funding Expenses: A$455,000

The new campus contains an indoor sports facility.A venue dedicated to music, art and theater, as well as two terrace gardens. Through the large floor-to-ceiling windows in the classroom, you can see a 180° city view.

[Caulfield Grammar School]

income: A $ 95.1 million

expenditure: A $ 101.8 million

government Appropriation expenditure: $578,000

The school’s new water center project features an Olympic-sized swimming pool with movable floors and walls, as well as dancing, pilates, meditation and yoga Healthy space.

[Knox Grammar School]

income: A $ 83.8 million

expenditure: A $ 100.1 million

government Appropriation expenditure: A$458,000

The school’s A$47 million performing arts center includes 750 seats, an orchestra auditorium and a 160-seat live performance space.The high school has a coffee shop with professional baristas.

Between 2013 and 2018, the number of registered Knox increased by 30%.

Even some Chinese parents said that school choice has actually become one of the important considerations for Chinese Australians to buy a house.

In fact, many Chinese buyers have bought a house near the school to facilitate their children to attend Knox Grammar School in Sydney.

"Some parents are afraid that their children will not be used to eating in the cafeteria or the school’s diet is not balanced, so they bought a house near the Knox Grammar School. Come back for dinner."

But not every Chinese parent is so "rich and headstrong."

Some Chinese working-class parents also rented a small apartment nearby in order to get their seventh-grade children to attend the school.

and I live in northwestern Sydney,Between the two places every day.

Why do these Chinese parents prefer to send their children to private schools when traveling between two places?

A recent study found that in the past ten years, the funding growth of private schools has been 6 times that of public schools!

The disadvantages of public schools are continuing to intensify!

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There is a three-year learning gap between 15-year-old students in private schools and public schools!

The imbalance of educational resources is not over yet!

By 2029, public schools will face a funding shortage of A$60 billion!

and private schools will have a surplus of A$6 billion.

In the 10 years ending in 2019, private schools will receive an additional $2164 in educational resources per student, while public schools will only receive $334 per student.

These unfavorable factors bring huge costs to society including high unemployment, poor health and low economic growth.

Although, Australian Minister of Education Alan Tjudge declared that the school funding war is over.

But everyone who knows knows that the so-called "school funding dispute is over" is just the view of the Morrison government.

For public schools, the war is certainly not over!

New data shows that public schools are further behind.

The long-term underfunding of public schools has brought huge costs to individuals, society and Australia’s economic prosperity.

Between 2009-10 and 2018-19, federal and state government funding for private schools increased by more than six times that of public schools!

adjusted for inflation,Private schools have increased their funding by A$2164 per student, while public schools have increased by A$334 per student.

From a percentage point of view, the contrast is greater!

Private schools increased by 22.4% per student, while public schools only increased by 2.4%, almost 10 times that of public schools.

"The gap" is getting bigger and bigger!

Although the Australian Federal Government has increased its funding for public and private schools in name.

However, the increase in private schools is almost twice that of public schools-1,943 Australian dollars per student, compared to 994 Australian dollars per student in public schools.

is not just the federal government.

The state governments also prefer private schools!

All state governments, including the Labour Party and the National Liberal Party, have used additional federal funds to reduce funding to public schools-an average of 660 Australian dollars per student.

However,Instead, it has increased funding for private schools-an average increase of $221 per student.

The above set of data comes from the "Report on Government Services in 2021" (ROGS), but it has been adjusted here to provide a comparison between public and private schools and to be more accurate Adjust for cost inflation.

Other official government data also show that unless the funding policies of the federal and state governments change drastically, it is unlikely that public schools will receive sufficient funding in the next ten years.

According to the bilateral funding agreement between the federal government and the state government, except for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), public schools in all states will only receive 91% of their school education resource standards (SRS). SRS is all government funding needed by the school to meet the educational needs of students.

’s cumulative funding by 2029 is estimated to be less than A$60 billion.

In contrast, because the Morrison government provides generous special offers for private schools, several state governments continue to over-fund.

At least before 2029, private schools will receive more than 100% of SRS funding.

The results of the 2018 International Student Assessment Project show that there is a three-year learning gap between 15-year-old students from families with high and low socioeconomic status!

The proportion of students with high socioeconomic status who complete 12 years of studies is much higher than that of students with low socioeconomic status.

The vast majority of low socioeconomic status and other disadvantaged students attend public schools; only a small proportion of them attend private schools.

According to data provided to the Senate by the Australian Curriculum and Reporting Authority, 85% of students with low socioeconomic status go to public schools, compared with 12 in Catholic schools. %, the proportion of private schools is only 4%.

More than 90% of disadvantaged schools in Australia are public schools.

In addition, an OECD report shows that Australia is one of the most severely segregated school systems in the OECD and the world.

At the same time, the degree of social separation in Australia has also increased the most since 2006!

The reason for all this is: the government's education and funding policies.

All this shows that the school society is seriously unfair! The government's funding of private schools can only be described as blatant favoritism.

Therefore, it is almost impossible to narrow the performance gap between students.

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Does the taxpayer’s money increase education inequality?

Every year there is a heated discussion about government funding, but many education researchers point out that a larger source of public funding for schools is the real problem.

Some education experts believe that the increase in public funding has enabled many private schools to raise funds from private sources for capital expenditures.

Grattan College’s school education project director Peter Goss said that _p5

p0 I am not surprised at all."

"Of course parents and others will actively raise funds for the schools they support."

"But each of these schools has also received a large amount of regular funding from the Australian government.Therefore, we have reason to ask whether taxpayer funding will make our education system more unequal.

The severe shortage of public school funding is the result of previous coalition governments’ opposition to the Gonski Fund plan.

This plan aims to use more local government funds where they are most needed.

Adrian Piccoli, the former Minister of Education of New South Wales, said that the way government funds are allocated to private schools means that schools "have the ability to transfer funds from routine operations to capital needs."

"It has always been a surprise that the NSW government only needs to fill in one card for a Catholic school, and they only need 800 million Australian dollars per year. Page form to verify that they are spending the money just right. "

Picoli added, "The public has the right to know where and how public funds flow."

"Before we know any details,You can't be sure whether they use the money for capital purposes.

In fact, four reports were submitted in the past few years- in 2016, the Auditor-General's report of Victoria , the report of the National Audit Office in 2017, and in 2018. South Wales Auditor-General’s Report and the 2019 Joint Public Accounts and Audit Committee report have all raised concerns about the lack of transparency in the direction and use of funding.

However, the Australian National Catholic Church Education The response given by the committee and the Independent Schools Committee was very "official":

"The Australian government has strict accountability requirements to ensure that non-public schools will comply with the regulations-that is, regular funding must be allocated. Used for daily education expenses. "

"How much money your parents make determines your life path-we may really be going back to the industrial age."

Failure to address the disadvantages in education will bring huge costs to society, including higher unemployment, low incomes, poor health and slow economic growth. _p

This model is very similar to other government policies such as housing.These policies purposefully benefit the already wealthy and cause economic productivity and growth to stagnate. Emma Rowe, senior lecturer in education at

Deakin University said that the expenditure gap reflected between Australian schools was “quite disturbing”.

"There is no doubt that many Australian parents also know this. This is why they are willing to invest so much money in some schools." _span3p