Posts by David Ritchie
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Imagine an embedded YT video of the bit from "Life On Mars" where Sam is watching Gene manhandle a suspect into some pale excrement, and mutters "White dog shit -- that takes me back." That's what I'd put here if I could find it.
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But Souter doesn't need one. He has a monopoly of buses in Wellington as well as receiving state funding
I thought Stagecoach had sold their bus interests to Infratil. It's now Lloyd Morrison et al running them as "Go Wellington".
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Should Harraway's develop porridge from spiced lentils and call it "Rolled Dahl"?
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Only fifteen? I'm surprised.
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Dottore, you flatter me.
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The post *was* one of my favourite things. Obviously the product of a state education.
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Thanks for the reminder, it contains one of my favourite paragraph of 2009:
All in all, the post one of my favourite things I've read all year. Thanks Mr. L!
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David - have you a reference for this? It's rather alarming.
If Mr. Litterick counts as a reference, then that's the one I'm using.
So what difference does it make? It makes none, none at all, other than to increase inequality: a student in a private school will be funded by $15K of public money, while a student in a public school receives $5K.
I can't find primary sources regarding total funding distribution but the recent budget saw $35m *additional* funding for private schools (with 4% of students) vs. $320m for public schools -- a ratio of 2.65 : 1. Obviously this is largely meaningless without the totals but helps fan the fires.
Happy to take any other numbers into consideration.
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Note that it can't really be argued that private schools repay X amount of their funding in income tax, since so many of them are actually run by charitable trusts.