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$20, 000 a year is a waste of money, particularly when public schools still do very well for almost only $100 a year. Public school students also tend to outperform private school students in university.

$20, 000 could buy you so much...

Heck, it could build a school in a developing country incl. resources, where needy children can be educated, rather than going towards snobby egotistical jerks who still refer to their parents as 'mummy' and 'daddy' in HSC year.
 

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no i was flicking through the report they send to everyone at the end of the year and it caught my eye, so i thought i'd see where all the money was going
oh so you're a former Kings boy?
 

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$20, 000 a year is a waste of money, particularly when public schools still do very well for almost only $100 a year. Public school students also tend to outperform private school students in university.

$20, 000 could buy you so much...

Heck, it could build a school in a developing country incl. resources, where needy children can be educated, rather than going towards snobby egotistical jerks who still refer to their parents as 'mummy' and 'daddy' in HSC year.
well if you saw this years list of school ranks based on hsc results their was an increasing majority of private schools, ao i guess they're getting what they pay for...

a lot of these private schools have extra curricular programs for year 12 graduates to take a gap year to send them to these developing nations i guess as a means to either rid their guilt (lol) or just make it look like they 'care'. i know for a fact most Abbotsleigh girls who decide to take a gap year use it to go be some teacher's aid in some private school in England, so not quite developing nations aidwork...

lol at the mummy daddy thing, i just go 'hey you!'
 

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the joke is they are funded by the government to the tune of $2-4 million while being able to charge 20 k per year
 

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the joke is they are funded by the government to the tune of $2-4 million while being able to charge 20 k per year
this is just uninformed speculation i'm about to make, but i guess these boards have some arrangements with the kids of fed MPs, too bad Latham didn't clean up his act to put an end to this
 

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never heard of the developing country thing, but for example kings completely funds a school in bangladesh + every house has to raise money for charity + often the school partially funds trips to developing countries to build orphanages etc. (but im not sure about the gap year thing)

a lot of private schools have gap year exchanges with english schools tho...
yeah it's through the headmaster and headmistresses committee thing or something. yeah pretty much every catholic systemic/independent/private school has these charity fundraisers
 

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not king david, just the King's School. the only school up there that remotely resembles a Jewish school is Reddam. but now since you're talking about melbourne schools, how are the fees down there?
Probably in the $15000-$20000 range for private schools.

That said they do all punch above their weight in the school rankings.
 

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Probably in the $15000-$20000 range for private schools.

That said they do all punch above their weight in the school rankings.
how can a school punch above its weight? that doesn't even make sense.
 

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Probably in the $15000-$20000 range for private schools.

That said they do all punch above their weight in the school rankings.
that's way more reasonable than ours which is surprising seeing how you guys (i think) have so many more Jewish secondary schools than us. and it's also easier for your private schools to do well seeing how you only have a few selective schools
 

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that's way more reasonable than ours which is surprising seeing how you guys (i think) have so many more Jewish secondary schools than us. and it's also easier for your private schools to do well seeing how you only have a few selective schools
Melbourne is cheaper than Sydney in many aspects. Their median house price is nothing compared to ours.
 

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Melbourne is cheaper than Sydney in many aspects. Their median house price is nothing compared to ours.
so true, Toorak and Canterbury in Eastern Melbourne compare nothing to Point Piper or Double Bay. you get better value down Eastern suburbs of Melbourne as well, cheaper property, streets lined with 200 year old oak trees, and a strong sense of Victorian/Georgian/Federation architectual preservation, none of that McMansion shit we get here in Sydney except in the inner west and Paddington
 

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Who cares if a private school raises it's fees? They're basically a buisness, so the services they provide and the fees they charge should be entirely at their own discrestion. Fees can't continue rising indefinately or the schools will run out of clients.

If you can't pay the fees, don't attend. Its hardly an issue. Anyway, public schools aren't as bad as people make them out to be ;) (Comming from an ex-Grammar boy).
 

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Who cares if a private school raises it's fees? They're basically a buisness, so the services they provide and the fees they charge should be entirely at their own discrestion. Fees can't continue rising indefinately or the schools will run out of clients.

If you can't pay the fees, don't attend. Its hardly an issue. Anyway, public schools aren't as bad as people make them out to be ;) (Comming from an ex-Grammar boy).
thanks for the advice seneca

this is also a really stupid post and the poster is probably too thick to figure out why
 

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thanks for the advice seneca

this is also a really stupid post and the poster is probably too thick to figure out why
it was in the paper and i just wanted people's opinions on it, is that so idiotic?
 

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thanks for the advice seneca

this is also a really stupid post and the poster is probably too thick to figure out why
Amuse me, care to explain my mistake?
 
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