Catholic schools are losing in popularity, but public schools are gaining ground in the primary years while independent schools continue to boom for secondary.
which school their children attend with a flight away from Catholic and independent primary schools back to the government sector over the past eight years, but a big shift towards independent high schools.
asked parents about the type of school their children attend, the amount in school fees they pay as well as subjective assessments ofEsperanza Vera-Toscano, who wrote the chapter on education participation and experiences, said she was genuinely surprised at the size of the shift towards independent high schools.
The HILDA results also reveal worrying information about the levels of poor discipline and bullying in government schools. While levels of bullying have declined overall – with the exception of independent high schools, where there was a 4.4 per cent increase – one in five parents of children at government schools reported being contacted by the school because of poor behaviour. However, that statistic was lower than the one in four who reported the same in 2012.
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