@Benbradley you wrote: "People generally want the best chances and prospects for their children and that comes more and more associated with attending a non-public school...
What divide then exists becomes one of not having their children brain-washed with leftist drivel and being taught to think critically rather than force-fed increasingly irrelevant social-engineering-based stupidity they must regurgitate to keep their place in the public school..."
Could you please reference the curriculum citing the "leftist drivel" you claim is being taught.
From the Australian "Public education enrols the vast majority of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, yet operates on a budget that's close to 70 per cent of independent schools.
It's actually extraordinary what they do. If the MySchool website was to report individual students' literacy and numeracy improvement from test to test it would find that government schools far outperform private schools.
Internal research from Melbourne University shows that it is students from public schools who perform better in their first year of university, as they are required to be self-motivated and apply high levels of self-discipline while at school."
Also according to the My School website "PUBLIC schools in wealthy areas are outperforming most of the nation's most expensive and prestigious private schools in reading and writing"
In addition, a friend of mine who is a business owner and regularly attends meetings for the business council in her city says that common opinion is that many of the local businesses won't employ children who have attended some of the prestigious & expensive schools because experience has shown that "they are unable to even wipe their own ass".
