Just because you've been afforded to maybe 5% of the country doesn't mean that everyone is, batfink. And because your elitist political and social ethos behaves like everyone does doesn't make you a genius, it makes you a fool.

You're operating around the assumption that people who can't afford to send their child to private school smoke and drink and are covered in tattoos and wear glorified pyjamas. Or it could be (get this) that they're FUCKING POOR and subsequently receive an inferior education (as demonstrated by imonfourfourtwo).

Just because you've been afforded to maybe 5% of the country doesn't mean that everyone is, batfink. And because your elitist political and social ethos behaves like everyone does doesn't make you a genius, it makes you a fool.

You're operating around the assumption that people who can't afford to send their child to private school smoke and drink and are covered in tattoos and wear glorified pyjamas. Or it could be (get this) that they're FUCKING POOR and subsequently receive an inferior education (as demonstrated by imonfourfourtwo).

Just because you've been afforded to maybe 5% of the country doesn't mean that everyone is, batfink. And because your elitist political and social ethos behaves like everyone does doesn't make you a genius, it makes you a fool.

You're operating around the assumption that people who can't afford to send their child to private school smoke and drink and are covered in tattoos and wear glorified pyjamas. Or it could be (get this) that they're FUCKING POOR and subsequently receive an inferior education (as demonstrated by imonfourfourtwo).

typical rebuttal from AFRO, resorting to personal abuse AGAIN.....:-" :-" :-" :-"

well my daughters private school fee's are $5000 a year.....all you have to do is cancel your foxtel and hey presto

Our country is fucked, get over it. Am emigrating.

Just because you've been afforded to maybe 5% of the country doesn't mean that everyone is, batfink. And because your elitist political and social ethos behaves like everyone does doesn't make you a genius, it makes you a fool.

Approximately 35% of students attended non-government schools in 2013.

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mediareleasesbyCatalogue/130E6818E4A6AE51CA2576EA0011F88C?OpenDocument

And what percentage of those were full fee paying? What percentage of those had siblings who did likewise?

Annual statistics aren't particularly relevant when we're talking about being privately educated for a prolonged period. Parents paying $20k/year for 6 years of high school (before having to buy things like books, laptops, uniforms, etc) for multiple children, it's prohibitively expensive.

Ok, so here's something that doesn't need statistics:

EVERY member of society should have equal, open opportunity to receive adequate education and if your answer to that is "well if you don't like it then go private" then that means that our government has failed us.

EVERY member of society HAS an equal, open opportunity to receive adequate education. EVERY student in Australia is entitled to a public school education.

If you don't like this, then you SHOULD have the opportunity to go private if you value your child's education more than others.

If the quality of education and test scores are on the decline over the last decade then clearly it ISN'T adequate.

I'm not talking about comparative education with other countries.

I'm comparing the types of schooling options in Australia against each other.

There's nothing personal there, it makes observations about your contentions.

And those who don't have foxtel, don't drink, don't smoke and don't indulge in any of your other aforementioned "lower class luxuries" and still can't afford private education, they should just fall by the wayside, right?

Ok, so here's something that doesn't need statistics:

EVERY member of society should have equal, open opportunity to receive adequate education and if your answer to that is "well if you don't like it then go private" then that means that our government has failed us.

ummmmm

EVERY member od society in australia does have an opportunity to attend school

Stop changing the subject Afro - we were discussing the moral right of every student to free and equal education, not how that education stood up internationally.

I'm sorry, I must have been confused by the SUBJECT of the thread being "PISA report finds Australian teenagers education worse than 10 years ago".

Yes, but the PISA report clearly demonstrates that the adequacy and standard of education in this country has fallen significantly. Just because everyone has the opportunity to attend doesn't mean that it's adequate.