Victorian Education Minister James Merlino said he was ‘extremely concerned about any entity masquerading as a school without the necessary regulatory oversight’. |By SimoneFoxKoob and madeleineheff
The founder of Riverside Grammar School, an unregistered school in Melbourne’s east, says he has no plans to apply for registration and insists it operates more efficiently without being caught up in what he says is the bureaucratic nightmare of government regulation.
Riverside Grammar, founded by former Trinity Grammar staff member Jon Carnegie to cater for young people who struggle to fit within the mainstream system, is being investigated by the state’s education regulator over whether it is compliant with the legislation.“We operate more efficiently without government money or support because we can address the real issues rather than be caught up in the bureaucratic nightmare which currently pervades the sector.
Dr Carnegie said these minimum standards were “little more than a set of ambiguous benchmarks established as ammunition to close down schools like Riverside Grammar because we do not fit the cookie-cutter model the government prefers”.Dr Carnegie said he was confident that “any child at Riverside is far safer with us than they are being duck-shoved from one service to another until they turn 18”.
“It’s not that I don’t want to register [Riverside Grammar], it’s that I have been deregistered by the VRQA on two prior occasions. I have no confidence that going through the re-registration process for the third time would be beneficial for the young people who we work with,” he said.
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