Opinion: Perrottet will open a new selective school at Westmead. It’s a terrible idea | JordsBaker
In doing so, the NSW government has doubled down on a policy that it should have wound back. Meanwhile, it downgraded a plan to identify gifted and talented students in all schools that would have been a genuine step forward.
In doing so, they have undermined the rest of the state system. Many mainstream state schools are now “residualised”, which means they are the option of last resort, avoided by families with the income to pay for a private school or for selective school coaching. “Segregating schools according to labels has created more of a problem that we have to deal with rather than resolving the fundamental problem,” Stokes admitted in 2019.
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