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The Times league tables of literacy andpatagonia men's lightweight guide pants reviews3 numeracy performance across all schools in the ACT continue to show the dominance of independent schools over government and Catholic schools.
But the wealthiest independent schools continue to spend about one third more than government schools and, in some cases, double the amount per student of Catholic schools.
The My School website went live on Wednesday with the 2012 NAPLAN scores of more than 9000 schools.
In a raw score ranking of ACT s 110 schools, one of the biggest performers on this year s league tables was Burgmann Anglican School which outperformed Radford College across all literacy and numeracy domains at Year 7 level. Radford, however, continues to be one of the ACT s best performing scpatagonia better sweater icelandic hoodyhools in other year levels.
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Girls Grammar and Grammar continued to achieve some of the top rankings across all domains and all year levels, although Grammar slipped in its primary school rankings on last year and rose in its high school rankings.
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Garran, Mawson and Telopea Park School were among the government schools top primary achievers while St Bede s and St Joseph s primary schools were among the Catholic school sbuy patagonia gift cardystem s top performers.
Despite being shown to spend the lowest amount pepatagonia men's lightweight guide pants reviewsr student of the three school sectors, Catholic schools generally performed at or above the national average.
In a separate set of figures to be published on Saturday, the Times will provide league tables which show the impact of social advantage on student performance and the impact of the value add that each school provides its students.
Australian Education Union ACT bpatagonia coupons onlineranch secretary Glenn Fowler said the Times was being irresponsible in continuing to print league tables whicpatagonia los gatos vest reviewh had become an annual kick in the guts for the schools which found themselves at the bottom of the table.
Mr Fowler noted that schools such as Jervis Bay Primary a tiny school of just 60 children, with a high number of indigenous students had just a handful of students sit the test.
The ACT government operates Jervis Bay Primary through an historical anomaly, and it is also the most expensive school to run, costing $37,043 per studepatagonia men's lightweight guide pants reviews0nt, compared with the ACT government school average of just more than $13,000.
The smaller the sample, the more meaningless the results, Mr Fowler said.
Parents can be assured that our teachers are working collaboratively to address a diverse range of needs and public schools proudly cater for all students.
Mr Fowler said neither the raw score tables, published on Friday, nor the Index of Community Socio Educational Advantage tables to be published on Saturday would give any parent an accurate picture of the value of their school.
These figures must be taken with a grain of salt these wild fluctuations from year to year where a school can jump 90 places point to the inaccurate and unreliable nature of the data, he said. It is the performance in a narrow area of study on onpatagonia discount code disneylande day last year 10 months ago and no conclusion can be drawn from this about school or teacher quality.
Mr Fowler labelled the league tables an adult spectator sport which is completely unhelpful for students . The director of Catpatagonia men's lightweight guide pants reviews2holic education for the Archdiocese of and Goulburn, Moira Najdecki, said, Any league tables and simplistic ranking of schools are misleading and do not provide breadth of information. Mrs Najdecki said league tables provided a distorted picture and are of no diagnostic value . The My School website was never intended as a source of data to form league table.
Good ol league tables! Let s ignore the fact that there are selective schools that weed out anyone who will lower their ranking. Meanwhile other schools accept all comers and work hard to support and educate them. I rather think that the latter is what we should be doing as a decent society. I won t even start on how some Christian schools behave when it comes to education and elitism.
Two of my children went to patagonia everlong review 80lowly ranked schools and scored in the very high 90 s in their ATARs over the last couple of years. They had dedicated and supportive teachers. Sure, all schools have their problem kids, but rather than sheltering our kids we thought it more important for them to experience all that society had to offer and perhaps even help and provide leadership along the way.
My experience in is that many parents are more preoccupied with the prestige or networking it bestows on themselves to send their kids to private schools; or that they have an irrational fear of public education.
I think its time we abandoned these tables and let schools get on with educating our kids rather than trying to engineer league table outcomes.
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Actually, many people send their children to Catholic schools because they are Catholic and offer teaching in basic aspects of the faith, not for the so called prestige or fear of public education. There is still a good social mix at these schools and yes, all schools have their problem kids. Many parents make big sacrifices in order to send their children there. There are just as many tradie utes outside my catholic school as 4WDs.
