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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    ^^ I think the language is a bit misleading/confusing for me, they mention industries, obviously a dental technican is going to get paid less then a full dentist, male or female, if a male lawyer gets a grad position into a top tier law firm, theirs will be higher then a female gets a...
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    well thats pretty unfair in my books, and is total BS, are we comparing apples and apples though, eg. a male grad gets hired at higher rates then a female grad???
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    i dunno, kids are pretty impressionable, I was and still am obviously if you got a top top piivate school, useless kids that dont study, fail and smoke cigarettes will get excluded eventuanlly, so maybe on AVERAGE, the quality of the friends your child makes will be better, thats my guess and...
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    one of my good friends went to Frankston secondary or there abouts, quite a smart guy, studied moderately hard in my eyes, probably very hard in his schools standards, ended up getting a TER of 99.8, even he has absolutely no idea how he did it, on the other hand, I have friends who id...
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    I do agree its a bit on the silly side, but ive heard this alot in europe and the states, its not about teh education, you pay top $$ to hang around the right people, maybe it more applies to certain fields
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    a recent conversation I had with a parent who wasnt rich, which I hadnt considered before and could be true, could be not she is putting her kids into a private school, not for the education, but for the people that go there,the opportunity to make contacts, network and meet the right people...
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    OECD report says australian private schools offer no accademic advantage

    I cannot afford private schools, and I have spent some time in one, I dont know which is better, however, id rather push my kids to get into an elite school but cheap like uni high or melb high or macrob, I know for a fact that those schools do offer great education, if my kids are too dumb...
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