Published: August 17, 2018
Research points to individual school culture being more important than if a school is public or private
If you want to ruin a dinner party, try lobbing this on the table: are private schools better than public schools? Or this: are they worth the money?
For parents who have the relative luxury of choice in these matters, the question is a vexed one. Finding the right school for your child is an emotional decision, clouded by prejudice, guilt and hope, distorted by wealth and peer group and the carefully curated aura of private school reputations. In a country that still wants to think of itself as egalitarian, evidence of the growing disparity between Australia’s richest and poorest schools has politicised it too.
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