OH MY GOD! after 160 pages of scholarship banter,
why cant it be like the Taco ad where the little girl (AAGPS) says "why don't we just have both?" and the italian community (the wider GPS community) cheering and clapping the little girl in amazement!
GPSrow's supreme Ideal:
- 2 100% full fee Scholarships offered to each school in each sport or co-curricluar activity (even music or debating). If they cross-over and end up excelling in one or more sport or co-curricular activities, that is fine. 'The more they do, the merrier' This scholarship must be means tested. They can come in any year.
- 1 100% full free Scholarships provided it go to a boy of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander heritage to every GPS school.
- Any other scholarships offered by the school e.g. an all rounder, music etc. must be a minimum of 25% full fee deduction. Any other family member or teacher deductions can be to a maximum of 50%.
This will ultimately allow for a minimum of 16 boys in the GPS system to be accepted and acknowledged as the best performers in there school and in the GPS. It will require them to achieve excellence in the particular sport or co-curricular activity they are chosen to be in (or more) and provide healthy competition for other boys that are paying full fees.
And on a final note, having 8 or so Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander boys in the GPS system will do great wonders for the stigmas and stereotypes of some GPS schools.
It was also grant these children a world class education to which will hopefully lead to a better life for them, their communities and improve the huge disparity between Indigenous and non-indeginous Australians.
There you go gentlemen. An 18-year old's insight into fixing all this "crap".
