Yes, you have a problem. MacRob and Melbourne Boy’s High are both good, but MacRob only starts from year 9 and as MBH is the brother to that school, I’d assume the same is true for it.

You have a boy I assume, as you’re checking out MBH; a lot of people like Presentation, the Catholic school in (I think) Windsor or Prahran, but its brother school is CBC, which used to have a pretty awful reputation and I don’t think it’s completely changed.

Besides that, I’m completely stumped. Also, I don’t know where I’m going to send the Boychild in three years’ time. Scarysuburb City College is a good fit for his older sister, but will it be for him? He’s not quite the, ahem, self motivated academic performer she is, intelligent as he is. We’ll (hopefully) see.

Sorry I’m not much help.

I know about the “I buy yours, you buy mine” fundraiser tango in offices. I recently sold my boss two of my raffle tickets, and now I’ve discovered his kids’ school is having a fete this Saturday – which I just don’t have the time to go to!! Aagh. Talk about a rock in hard places…

By the way, if a private school did have to hold a cake stall, do the parents just pop into for one, or do they bake em?

What am I saying? Cake stall? More like dinner and dance…

“Independent” schools are dependent on a larger slice of our tax dollars than government schools. It’s a very sly misnomer.

Here’s the link to the Kruddy statement and the less than impressive “policy” statement the next day. I’m starting to despair.

let me tell you, from the point of view of an objective outsider, melbourne has managed somehow to breed, i believe, the worst people i have ever encountered. surprise surprise, i’m not talking about those nasty poor people from the commission housing, or immigrants, or any of those other unholy types.

the affluent, predominantly white people from melbourne’s inner east are undoubtedly the nastiest, most selfish, self-obsessed people in the entire world. whenever we have a customer complaining for some trivial reason (the line is too long, why does popcorn cost so much, the sound is too loud, it’s too hot/cold in there… on an unrelated note, do they really think that a $14/hour casual cinema worker really cares that much?) it’s the kew crowd. whenever we have trouble with groups of kids mucking round inside a cinema, it’s not the ethnic “troublemakers”, but the spoilt, pretentious kids from MLC or Xavier who haven’t ever had to worry about money in their lives.

i guess, instead of me bitching, the point of this is to let you guys know that, from someone who grew up outside this environment, congratulations on what you’re doing for your kids. i wouldn’t live in the supposed “nice” part of melbourne in a fit, and i’m damn glad my parents didn’t think it necessary to get me educated in one of those expensive bubbles. while i also won’t be raising a family anywhere near suburbia in a fit, if i HAD to, it would be in the north or west somewhere.

end of rant.