Centrelink seems to expect people to commute daily for those 3 weeks because no funding is available for accommodation. A special needs class was set up at the beginning of 1998 at the primary school. One of the participating students will move on to the high school in 1999 dropping the numbers in this class below the minimum level for eligibility for a full-time teacher. The school will lose two days of one teacher each week. But the class is there five days a week.
Funding is based on the number of students rather than the needs of the students.
The formula needs to be re-written. For children learning at home there are definite inequalities. Supervising mothers are not remunerated for spending whole days in the home schoolroom and preparing lessons after school hours. There is a fear that education will become more and more dependent on sponsorship. We are expected to grovel to the fairly few businesses to ask them to sponsor our kids even though we pay taxes for their education.