I get the point but it's not a great statistic to cite. Most schools don't expand every year so they can have spent $0 on new facilities in 2023.
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So you think of those 3,000 schools none were doing expansions or renovations?
You think the budgets for those projects don’t run over years?
Or that when they do require those works that they will receive anywhere near the same level of funding?
I said “I get the point”. This means that I know about the disparity but that's just a bad way to illustrate it. You could say that when you first got a dollar from your parents, you became richer than 500 million people because at least that many are in debt right now. Or that the richest 1% bought more houses this year than 20 million Australians because most people buy 0 houses in any given year. I would find it more useful to pick a statistic that cannot be zero, such as annual budget.
Private schools also receive the bulk of their revenue from private contributions and fees.
(Plus another $8k one-off fee to apply/enrol a child)
The article is glossing over the fact that the crazy amount of money this school has is coming from parents.
$32,000 to $47,000 per year per kid pays for a lot. Assuming these fees were frozen for the next 13 years (which they obviously won't be), it'd cost a parent $525,284 per kid to send them to this school. Plus all the other costs like uniforms, books, excursions etc.
Some people can afford this.
That's the other thing about these schools - the school fees themselves basically just buy you the privilege to send your kid there. But then you still get ripped thousands more for pretty much everything else. And it's not like their uniforms will be cheap. You pay extra for any sporting activity, you pay extra for electronic devices, it's just a money grab from beginning to end.
And at the end of the day, the only thing you can say with certainty is that your education was expensive. But was it worth it? Was it better than a public school?