Comment Re:Sigh (Score 1) 152
The real sad thing is, private schools in Australia get more government funding than public schools...
This gets brought out every election by the teachers union, it just lies through statistics.
Private schools get more Federal Government funding, and public schools get more State government funding. The state govements get the money for the schools from the federal government anyway.
See this link: http://www.acer.edu.au/documents/PolicyBriefs_Dowling07.pdf It is from 2004, but it shows that public schools get a average of $10,000 per student from the government and private schools get $6,000.
There is still an argument to be made that the public schools should get a bigger slice, but deliberately ignoring 90% of the funding for public schools isn't the way to argue it.