Lobby Controls Schooling
Saturday, January 01, 2000
The Australian Education Union fights fiercely against any evening-up of the funding to government and non-government schools. Even the objective procedure of tying a school’s funding to the actual socio-economic level of its families doesn’t satisfy them (“More cash for rich schools” Age p1, 12/2/98).
So what is their agenda? The more the AEU have their way, the harder it will be for less well-off kids to get into “elite” schools. Too bad for the children the AEU pretend to represent. If there are any elitists out there, they will be very glad the AEU is doing their dirty work for them.
No, if you’re going for a classless society, the AEU position doesn’t make sense. Their real agenda is restricting parent choice and thus hanging on to the unfair share of taxpayers’ money that is channelled to their power base within the school industry.
Philip O'Carroll