I suppose it should come as no surprise that based on a recent national survey in Australia parents are more satisfied with their private school education than those parents whose children attend public schools.
According to the survey, while 74 per cent of parents with children in state schools were satisfied with the education their children were receiving, parents in the private system were even more satisfied. More than 80 per cent of parents with children in the Catholic (81 per cent), independent (88 per cent), and other religious school (95 per cent) sectors were either somewhat or very satisfied with the education their children were receiving.
The most pleasing statistic from this survey is really the very high level of satisfaction among Australian parents of the free government education system. The fact that nearly 8 in 10 parents are satisfied with free public education is a great testimony to the quality of the Australian education system in my view.
I wonder what these statistics would be like if a similar survey was carried out in Hong Kong.
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