The Federal Government has threatened to withdraw funding from independent schools if they do not open on a limited basis for the second school term.Education Minister Dan Tehan has threatened to cut the funding of schools who do not complyIn a letter to bodies representing independent schools, Education Minister Dan Tehan ordered that, while the schools did not have to reopen in full, they must provide an option for children who could not stay at home amid the COVID-19 crisis.
"We want all schools to be offering that learning environment for those parents who have to work, and for those children where it's safer to be in the classroom," Mr Tehan said. Mr Tehan said his concerns were related to a small number of schools he believed were not offering the face-to-face teaching options that public schools were."What we want is a nationally consistent approach," he said.
"There were some independent schools that weren't offering — for parents who had to work at all year levels — that opportunity for those students to get that safe learning environment."
DanTehanWannon eduspokesperson Think of all the votes the LNP would lose if they carried out this supposed threat... what a farce! auspol Australia
Please list titles of the research on school populations that result in “schools are safe” ? I’d like to read it.
They never will, the government funds private schools so they can have some control over what is taught. If they don't partly fund private schools it will actually disadvantage our kids in public schools, because the government won't allocate the extra money to their education.
......boo hoo just cos you lefties can’t afford private skooling
ScottMorrisonMP He wants schools open at any cost. Parents won't be sending them....what next fine the parents ? He will give no ground and tells us this fantasy that yep all's good...til kids come home unwell and everyone in that house is isolated..well done dumbass.
Shouldn’t receive taxpayer funds anyway! Speaking of tax.... time to tax Jesus.
Not right!
Not even a communist state yet and already have the audacity to disgracefully flexing its muscle, can only imagine if it actually becomes a communist state which will NEVER happen despite the pathetic attempts of using a fake pandemic to establish communist governance. 🖕🖕
Tehan vs private schools
Why the fuck do independent schools need funding?
Cancel their funding. Nationalise the land that churches and schools stand on. Sell the land and use the proceeds to payoff coronavirus debt.
Hey..if they dont open, they dont need my money.
Shouldn’t fund them at all! Private means your excluding others but the same institutions are happy to take public money year after year after year!!!
ABC_NewsRadio Talk is cheap !
Yeah.... sure... like that is going to happen.
Bollocks, safeguard your children. That's what's important.
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