Australia’s schooling system is among the most highly segregated in the OECD. Public schools educate the majority of disadvantaged students, while there is concentrated advantage in private schools.
This situation can be attributed, in large part, to our school funding arrangements.
A really informative article that explains how we got to where we are and what we can do about it. Australians must demand a fair and more intelligent system.
I wish I had gone through the public school system, the shit the Catholic system left me with and all. The men who I went to school with who I recently reconnected with are the most sexist and racist people under age 60 I have ever met. My circle of public school friends are much more progressive.
On the good side, that Pet Shop Boys’ song really resonates, though I avoided the internalised shame
I also had a Catholic education (all-girls) but it was not as harsh as yours sounds like it was. Nevertheless, I rebelled in high school and asked too many questions (I was given a warning) about the religion. I’m not in touch with any of the people I went to school with but in the early years after school they were a very varied bunch, nuns, divorcees, and non-marriers but that was a long time ago. One thing that I do value about the Catholic education is the social justice aspect which is strong.
You’ve made me wonder what happened to all the girls I went to school with. Most of them would be grandmothers now.
Mine was all boys, my sister went to a girls only school. We were certainly treated differently.