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原帖由 Fernando 于 2012-4-4 10:08 发表 
那么好的精英中学校长才11万5,连程序员都不如。与其说好的教师被私立学校挖走的,不如说好的教师是被其他行业挖走的。
当时这一事件被SMH报道,大家都很震惊薪水的巨大差别。
Danger of headhunting when all is not equal
August 31, 2005
Subsidising the yawning gap between rich and poor in the education sector is immoral,
writes Lyndsay Connors.
The fact that Ascham, an eastern suburbs, private, high-fee, girls' school has recruited its latest principal from the executive ranks of the public school system made the news in yesterday's Herald.
This is a harbinger of moves to come, with many experienced school leaders and teachers in the public and non-government schools now moving towards retirement.
This will intensify competition among schools for experienced and accomplished staff, an issue raised in the report to the State Government in March by its public education council before it was disbanded. The losers in this competition will be schools that are vulnerable in the market, unlike Ascham, and that already have a disproportionate share of the less experienced teachers and principals.
The package reportedly offered by Ascham, of $350,000, is triple the $115,000 salary that Louise Robert-Smith receives as principal of North Sydney Girls' High. It is closer to the salary the Government pays the NSW Director-General of Education, who administers its whole public education system.
If parents who are able and willing pay their money to give their children whatever advantages there are in having twice or more of the resources generally available to their peers, then that is their decision and their business. Likewise, if they want to pay their principal $350,000 from their purses.
But this becomes a matter of public interest when the taxes we all pay to support education are used to subsidise inflated remuneration packages for staff in some non-government schools at the expense of funding for strategies to improve learning in other schools.
In its report, the council pointed out that one of the principles set out in the NSW Education Act (1990) is that "the principal responsibility of the state in the education of children is the provision of public education".
It also advised the Government of the steps needed to guard against a situation where, through using their greater resources to attract teachers, non-government schools could counteract the effect of the Government's efforts to strengthen public schools.
The NSW Government cannot have it both ways. Does it consider that a school principal salary of $350,000 is appropriate and necessary or not? If it does, then it would have to concede that the $115,000 it is paying Robert-Smith to head one of its own public schools is grossly inadequate.
If it considers that a salary of $350,000 would be excessive for the head of North Sydney Girls' High School in the public sector, which is its principal responsibility, then how does it justify subsidising that salary for schools in the private sector, adding to their capacity to compete with public schools for experienced and accomplished teachers and leaders?
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