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We need private schools. They offer better value-for-taxpayers-money than public education.

I am a young teacher with an ATAR of above 98 and first class honours.

I struggled immensely in my first year, at times due to the behaviour of my disadvantaged students, but at other times due to bullying from other staff.

I have learnt how to deal with both issues now.

Time after time I see disengaged students disrupting the learning of other students.

I am all for segregating these students, as unpopular as that idea may be, as I believe that their issues need a different approach than what is often possible to take in mainstream classrooms.

Also, private education is essential.

If all the students currently attending private schools were to enrol in public schools it would be a complete disaster.

Government funding would not even begin to cover it.

Private education is far better value-for-money (in terms of money the Government spends) education than the current public education system.