I’ve always been very critical of the fact that private schools in Australia often receive as much or more government funding than public schools and particularly of the fact that it’s getting worse, not better. This comment I recieved in a private email really hit me though:

but as i said… mega mega awesome…. as far as cleveland musicals go coz we don’t really have a budget seeing as it is a public school etc. It’s just wrong that some of the private schools around Brisbane have so much spare cash around that they have professional quality theaters and even full size pipe organs whereas the public schools are struggling to put on a musical at all. There are kids in those public schools that are absolutely passionate about music, arts, theater as well as sport and academia but they aren’t getting the same opportunities and experiences that “rich kids” get.