For parents who have the relative luxury of choice in these matters, the question is a vexed one.
Finding the right school for your child is an emotional decision, clouded by prejudice, guilt and hope, distorted by wealth and peer group and the carefully curated aura of private school reputations. In a country that still wants to think of itself as egalitarian, evidence of the growing disparity between Australia’s richest and poorest schools has politicised it too.
But parents want to do the best they can for their children. Lured by the ever-more luxurious facilities of private schools, the smorgasbord of extracurricular activities, the boaters and blazers, the solid feeling of generations of institutional history; some are captive to the idea they are doing children a disservice by sending them to the more modest local public school – particularly in high school, where these decisions seem to bite harder.
Enugu indigenes in Australia plan education trust fund for orphans
Enugu State indigenes association in Sydney, Australia at the weekend announced plans to institute an education trust fund.
Trust subsidize for motherless kids and less favored people in the state to empower them accomplish largest amount of instruction as a feature of its corporate social duties.
VP of the affiliation, Mr. Bernard Omewu, who expressed this when he drove individuals from the relationship on a visit to the Nigerian Red Cross Motherless Babies Home and Holy Child Motherless Babies Home, all in Enugu, said they were stressed in regards to the eventual fate of youngsters in the homes. The affiliation had brought a few sustenance things, child wears and money gifts to the homes.
Source : Guardianng