It’s easy to wave away the Colmont lesson as an isolated case of a convoluted business model colliding with a handful of poorly considered governance decisions, but that's not necessarily the case. | Adam Voigt | OPINION
in Melbourne’s north sent an understandable shockwave through the devastated community.
The ripple effect of such a closure on the Victorian private school system might take longer to recover from, though. The criteria for what gets squeezed from the family budget is chiefly luxuries and excesses that don’t really provide a tangible family benefit. What if they discover that, by multiple measures, our government schools clearly outperform their fee-clawing counterparts?
It’ll be schools you’ve probably never heard of whose parents are working two jobs to sustain this low-return life choice that we can predict to be leaving the lower fee-charging private options.
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