The South Australian Labor State Government is proposing to cut $28 million out of public school budgets to fund investments in the future, including the development of a number of impressive sounding Super Schools. This is the death of a thousand cuts, especially for small schools, often the heart and soul of small communities. They have already successfully whacked small country schools with a large cut this year. More pain coming up this year. The school our kids go to is looking at a cut of $30,000, with other larger schools, significantly larger cuts.
Public Schools in South Australia are already underfunded and this will make things much worse. The divide between private and public schools is getting larger. Surely this type of exercise will just undermine the Public Schools even more. Important programmes will be cut and resources withdrawn. In a time of budget stability and significant investments in other areas of the budget, the so called Education State is subsidising foreign American Universities to set up in Adelaide, writing off multi million dollar debts for the Festival Centre and at the same time depriving the future workforce of South Australia of resources needed in the classroom.
This is all Bollocks. It makes me very angry. This is a Labor Government. An arrogant one all the same.
So Mike Rann, Kevin Foley and Jane Lomax Smith, Lolly Jar Thieves and Smiling Assassins all, think this through a bit more. There are a lot of angry people out there.
I have set up a blog on this issue if any one is interested. It has the non confrontational name of SA Labor Stealing From Children (salaborlollyjarthieves.blogspot.com). I have been to a rally, wrote many emails, called politicians, signed petitions, called in to the radio station more than once and am supporting our school community through my work on the Governing Council.
If you can't do a little to support your kids then what is the point.
Rant Over
