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Parenting involves a lot of tricky choices. Not least of which is where your child should go to school.

Parents are increasingly finding themselves in a strategic game to optimise their child’s future by increasing their odds at getting into a better school – whether that be public, selective, Catholic or independent.

Increasingly, parents have turned away from our public schools.

It’s no secret that enrolments in our public schools are declining. Before the pandemic, 65 per cent of NSW students attended a public…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU