¿Es la Educación Privada una opción?

El 30 de Marzo, el periódico The Age publicó un artículo relacionado con la educación, el cual me pareció muy interesante, aquí les adjunto el enlace:

The big stretch

Este artículo generó una respuesta de los lectores, y en la edición de 7 de Mayo, publicaron alguna de las cartas recibidas de los padres de familia, lamentablemente, no las encontré la edición digital. El título fue “Is the sacrifice worth it?”. Fueron bastante interesantes las respuestas y concuerdan con lo hasta ahora he escuchado.

Este post lo actualizaré al tiempo que transcriba el diario, en el orden que aparecieron las cartas. Por supuesto, no los voy a traducir, así que disculpen que sea un post con contenido en Ingles, pero prefiero que ustedes lo interpreten.

Is the sacrifice worth it?

Last week’s cover story on the struggle for some parents to pay private school fees provoked a spirited reader response.

How timely. We are just going through the process of deciding on secondary education for our daughter – and tearing our hair out at the thought of how we might actually afford to go private. With two young boys in kinder and primary, full-time work for me seems out of the question. My husband and I had private school educations and assumed we would do the same for our children. Still, I don’t remember swimming pool, athletic tracks, fully equipped theaters or overseas excursions. I don’t believe these are necessary for a good education and see them as efforts to play on the new generation of parents who want “bigger and better” in all they have. I also hope those poor souls who lose marriages, financial security and sanity feel that the end product is worth the sacrifice.

Nadine Chan
Carnegie

We lost the Lottery
I have spent $ 100,000 to send my son to private school and the return was nil. He has dropped out of uni after his second year. Private school fees are now outstripping uni fees and I cannot really understand why.

There are a lot of state schools providing a better education than some of the private schools. A successful outcome for a child really depends on the child rather than whether they attend private or state schools. If I were to do it again, I would send my child to state school and spend money on private tuition, which is a lot cheaper and would provide a better outcome.

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Doing it for themselves
It is not often that children sincerely thank their parents for their efforts in raising them and appreciate the sacrifies made to send them to a private school.
In 2006, our girls arranged that we celebrate making them the spacial girls that they are with a night at a restaurant as a "thank you" and a token of appreciation.
We made the decision to send them to Mount Scopus Memorial College when the girls were babies.
We knew we could not provide assets of property or money - rather, the keys to success. We believe that a good education is the stepping stone for career, financial and social success. The school offers a large range of educational resources, the teachers are supportive and the culture is about working hard to attain success in the wider world - more importantly, the values of being a "good" person and understanding your religion and religious culture. Our girls' inheritance was good education to build the life they desire.
The financial sacrifices of hard work spanning 23 years seemed like eternity. Our hard-earned money went to pay school fees. And yes, it was difficult and tight.

Leah Shmerling
Elsternwick

El artículo aquí trascrito corresponde al publicado en el Diario Australiano The Age el Lunes 7 de Mayo del 2007, en la sección Educación. Se omiten las comillas por cuestiones estéticas.

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