Via Domainfax:
You can trace the cause of student overpopulation in Sydney’s east back to 1990 when Maroubra Bay High School was closed. The land was sold and redeveloped for town houses. Later Dover Heights and Vaucluse highs were amalgamated and the Vaucluse site sold. It is now a retirement village.
Since then population and birth rates in the eastern suburbs have grown rapidly. School enrolments in Waverley surged 22.5 per cent between 2012 and 2016.
In the Bondi area, enrolments at primary schools increased by 255 per cent from 2009-2014. My best friend Marianne started at Bondi Public Primary in 2009 when the school only had 150 students. By the time she left for Rose Bay Secondary College, the school had exploded to more than 500 students.
The government consistently denies there is an overcrowding problem, with Education Minister Rob Stokes stating the eastern suburbs is “currently not suffering from overcapacity in government high schools” as the public options in the east, including Rose Bay Secondary and Randwick Girls or Randwick Boys high schools, still have room to accept students.
It’s a lot simpler than that. Mass immigration has driven Sydney’s population crazy and it is going to get much, much worse:
Not to worry, VIC has the answer:
Victorian state schools with large numbers of students from outside their area will soon start rejecting families following changes that wind back parents’ school choice.
Under new Education Department rules, schools will not be entitled to extra portable classrooms from next year if 50 per cent or more of their students do not live locally.
Turning away out-of-area families has been a long-running practice at zoned schools and now, other schools will start refusing enrolments on similar grounds.
The move is a departure from successive governments’ mantra of families being able to choose the school of their choice, and is aimed at curbing the growth of large schools and encouraging students to attend their nearest school.
…“It has been a clandestine strategy to wind back parent choice and to save money in the process,” Berwick Lodge Primary School principal Henry Grossek said.
It is pure and simple a strategy to control population ponzi fallout. Then again, it makes a certain amount of sense. Why provide state of the art education to kids when you can employ cheaper migrants anyway. It’s a complete waste of public money to educate the locals.
Every daily compromise that we see is small. But each reduces the extant population’s choices and access to essential services. As Infrastructure Australia showed clearly, so long as mass immigration persists then this will get much, much worse, in Sardiney:
And in Helbourne:
This is not Left versus Right. A mad clique of developer interests have occupied all levels of government and they are going wring the life from eastern cities to get rich.
End of story.
