Parents in Australia do nothing less than their Chinese parents do to get their children to better public schools.
Wealthy parents can, of course, choose to buy expensive school districts, but more ordinary parents use strange ways to get their children into good schools.
For example, some families enroll in school districts and then move back home 12 months later. And the school does not have the right to drop out of school!
The headmasters want the Ministry of Education to close the loophole and force families to register when they move in and out of the school district.
Australian parents play with loopholes in the school transfer district
President Richard Minack of Brighton Secondary College said,
"We always encounter a situation in which parents provide documentation that they are in the school district, and then within a relatively short period of time, such as six months, they no longer live in the school district."
"sometimes they go back to the old house."
Mr. Minack says the problem is hard to solve, because once children go to school, they have rights to stay there.
He said schools have a duty to take care of students` welfare, and it would be unfair for them to be dropped out of school at the start of school.
"if they`ve established a lot of social relationships, you can`t say, `because your parents have taken advantage of the system, you have to drop out`."
President Pitsa Binnion of McKinnon Secondary College also stated:
"some families leave the school district`s house, but because someone else rents their house, it complicates the problem."
Many students are not in the school district
As many as 1/5 of Melbourne`s public schools, where admissions are strictly restricted, do not live in school districts.
A similar situation has occurred in the Sydney area (both urban and suburban), with up to 43 per cent of students in non-school districts. If you add some elite secondary schools, sports and other professional schools, the proportion of foreign students as high as 44%.
The arrival of a large number of foreign students undoubtedly aggravates the school entrance pressure, but also causes some non-popular schools to appear insufficient enrolment, resulting in a waste of resources such as vacant classrooms. And successfully promoted the school district housing prices continue to rise!
At the same time, a large number of excellent students gathered together, but also aggravate the advantages and disadvantages of education, and may weaken the social structure.
Julie Podbury, president of the Australian Federation of principals, said some parents were "cheating on a fair and fair process."
This puts an extra burden on children, who often have to get up early and trek to school.
Recommendation of the headmaster and the Ministry of Education
McKinnon Secondary College headmaster Pitsa Binnion said there should be an change admissions policy that states that the family should remain in the admissions area throughout the child`s education process, and that the leave should not be allowed unless for special reasons.
Headmasters are not critical of legitimate reasons, such as separation of parents, the need to sell their house or accept jobs on the other side of town, and the choice of families that have left their children in the same school for reasons such as the separation of parents, the need to sell their family`s house, or the acceptance of jobs on the other side of the town.
Another solution, says Brighton Secondary College headmaster Richard Minack, may be to give principals more rights to review enrolment based on their residence.
At present, the Federal Ministry of Education is reviewing each state school district, principals will have a larger rights to limit enrolment.
But the review will not solve this problem, but will focus on redividing the boundaries of school districts to fix unusual situations, such as students being divided into two schools or belonging to no school district.
They will also create a new website to make it easier for parents to see which school district they belong to.
The Ministry of Education, speaker, said that if a family has moved, but children who have enrolled in the school can continue to stay at the school.
"every Victorian student has a rights registered with a local public school."
But she said the school may require parents to fill out a statutory statement confirming that they live at the address and that the arrangement is true and intends to become permanent.
From this it is not difficult to see that when the popular school students burst into the situation, then it will become increasingly impossible to rely on other improper ways to enter the school!
However, strict school district restrictions will make the source of students relatively balanced, then the school`s educational achievements should be poor or not!
On the other hand, parents no longer have to pay more money to buy expensive school district housing, and students do not have to travel to school on a mountain-and-water basis. Is this not the best of both worlds?.
