Sexism seems alive and well in school donation shocker

Why else would boys’ schools rake in a lot more than girls’ schools?

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28th April, 2012

The newsletter from our local girls’ high school, which my elder daughter attends, says only 63% of parents paid the school donation, but 84% paid at my son’s boys’ high school. Both are decile 10 state schools in the same area. Other than parents apparently valuing their sons’ education more highly than their daughters’, what could explain the difference? Well, there are a couple of possibilities. For a start, there are two private girls’ schools not far away that probably siphon off some of the girls from higher-income families, but that is unlikely to be the whole explanation. ...

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