The SES funding scheme is a small, modest step in the right direction.

It grants to the highest-income Independent school families only 13.5% of the amount paid for every student in the state school system.

State-run schools are funded at the highest level for every student.

State-system operators claim to be socialists. But the SES scheme is more socialist than they are - because for the first time it distributes taxpayer's money for schooling according to family means.