Some independent schools have significant cash reserves. Why should they receive government funding?
State schools have guaranteed funding from one year to the next. Independent and Catholic schools only have certainty of government funding for four years: called a quadrennium. Governments can change the funding arrangements from one quadrennium to another, and a school that receives significant funding in one quadrennium may receive less in the next. It is simply prudent financial management to provide for such a possibility. Q9: Some people say that independent schools are elitist and divisive in the community. A: Independent schools make major contributions to the wider community. Many share their facilities for community use, sometimes at no cost to the public. Some are spiritual centres to their communities through their chapels; almost all independent schools undertake some form of community service, and many have incorporated community service into their curriculum, requiring all students to experience the responsibility of caring for others. A number of independent schools als
