When schools became brands
An edited extract of Rich Kid Poor Kid: The battle for public education (Vantage Point Issue 5), by Jane Caro AM. Available from May 5 in all good bookshops.

Jane Caro AM is an author, broadcaster, columnist and social commentator. In 2018, she a won the Walkley’s June Andrews Award for Women’s Leadership in Media. She is the author of two best selling novels, The Mother and Lyrebird.
An edited extract of Rich Kid Poor Kid: The battle for public education (Vantage Point Issue 5), by Jane Caro AM. Available from May 5 in all good bookshops.
Authoritarianism and its brutal brother fascism are rising all around us. They thrive on controlling, squashing and censoring ideas they do not like. I refuse to participate in that.
