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You're just dishing up the same old crap we've heard for years. Expressing dismay at the plight of government schools but falling back on the assumption that chaotic disaster would prevail if the imbalance were corrected. This old chestnut overlooks parents' key motivation for choosing non-Gov education - CLASS. Don't underestimate how much they would be prepared to pay to keep their kids segregated. Some then have the gall to suggest that addressing funding disparity by reducing top-end funding would be considered a "class war". WTF?What's having a conversation to you then? Asking a question, getting an answer and then stopping? I was curious as to how people might see that happening and wanted to flesh out answers in more detail.
But no. You DECIDE there's alternate motivations instead of taking the conversation on face value.
I genuinely want to see improvements to the education funding situation. I've shown that multiple times here. But apparently that's not good enough for you.
You also run with the trope that the wealthy private schools that are over-funded are "outliers". Sure, they are the most flagrant examples of the rort, but ALL private schools are over-funded by the current model compared to government schools - it's built into the policy. At the lower end, we've seen the rise of weirdo Christian churches all over the place enabled by this disgusting funding model. There was a time when state schools were the heart of Victorian education. Now they are basically residual for those who can't afford or are not welcome in these taxpayer-funded private enterprises. Hiding behind bibles and old-school ties, they must be pissing themselves laughing at how the politicians have looked after them. Howard's loathing of government schools was a huge turning point, but let's not let Whitlam off the hook with his commencement of the handouts in the 70s trying to stitch up the Catholic vote. It's been downhill since then as the segregators realised the power of the ballot box.