School choice: some parents are prepared to pay, but is society?

Australians going private to ‘find the right fit’ leave a depleted public system in their wake

“When our eldest started at his local high school it didn’t have a great reputation – whatever that means – and people audibly gasped when I said we were sending our child there,” says Lisa Barbagallo, a mother of three in Sydney’s inner west.

But her family scratched the surface and found the reality did not match the rumour mill.

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