Aussie parents are now losing homes because of school fees. Kids can now have an education, but not a place to live. Australia’s idiotic approach to education and the realities of paying for education is one of the sickest jokes in our history.
The Great Unnecessary Australian School Fee Disaster is a result of having a perfectly functional public education system, free university degrees, and dismantling it. We replaced it with the truly mindless American system, and jacked up the fees until we were absolutely sure they were at lethal levels.
That system, naturally, given the non-existent intellects running education policy for the last 40 years, soon invaded the high schools and others. Australian private schools were relatively expensive anyway, but the idea of sending whole generations of people broke was so appealing they thought they’d give it a shot.
The exciting, almost orgasmic, logic of this situation has been working well. Australian schools have now been “
referring debts”, a polite form of an obscene situation in the context of education.
Education, in effect, has become a luxury, not a right. In some cases, it’s not so much a luxury as an impossibility. The important other effect, total, absolute, complete, irrefutable failure to meet social, industrial and commercial needs for skills, has also been a triumph of no small degree.
This is what happens when the word “economics” refers to a spectator sport rather than a science. Australian economists may now cheerfully look forward to the day when their science, like sociology, becomes redundant on the basis of non-existence of a subject to study.
Just because a few greedy scum (illiterate, invertebrate plagiarism-sympathizers and unemployable corporate shills themselves), want an insane fees system doesn’t make it compulsory policy for all sides of Australian politics or some sort of gospel for public administration.
I know the guys from Kings and Scots who can read, and the policy writers who aren’t actually third rate mollusks from the bottom of Lake Burley Griffin will probably be able to follow the logic:
1. We’re costing ourselves a fortune.
2. The fees are keeping people out of the education system, not creating cashflow. (Unit/cash volumes are understood by grocers, why not educators?)
3. We’re not meeting, even in theory, demand for skills.
4. We’re using immigration of skilled workers as a semi- fix that will merely drag their own kids into the same situation. As policy, we might as well be renting a treadmill and just replacing generations of hamsters.
5. The first generations of Australian uni students after the Baby Boom produced multiples of the GDP of the original base.
6. What the hell about that needs explaining, and to which geriatric wombat?
7. Education costs are a real negative factor in CPI. They represent billions of dollars in real costs. Even a baffled bewitched bloated besieged bemused bandicoot could see that, but not our esteemed estimators, apparently.
8. Any efficient commercial system is based on affordability and lower costs, not un-affordability and occasional profit droolings from non-entities.
The whole concept of high fees, particularly for universities, is much resented in the community. Most of the generation of politicians who created this system received free college education. Most of them are millionaires on the basis of their qualifications. The results of that system were not noticeably to their own detriment. The contradiction of values in destroying educational opportunities for others must be a real source of pride to some venereal, venerable, management scientist or other bit of Triassic plankton somewhere.
There are no even vaguely plausible excuses for these fees, when you can get an education online, with accreditation, from anywhere.
You'll find that the general reason for not having a working fees system is because of factors which were relevant in approximately the 1970s, and referred to education technology which no longer exists outside museums and Australian primary schools.
The choice for Australians is now “eat or educate”.
Great achievement, bludgers.
Any ideas, or do you need a committee?
