rostrevor1 A Catholic School in the Edmund Rice Tradition March 2010 ROSTREVOR CoLLeGe inside Palma Merenti Chair of the Board From the Headmaster Senior School Middle School Junior School Scholastic Highlights Red and Black Rostrevor’s Heritage – Handball Bob Taylor Peter Tunbridge Nerio Ferraro Mark Shadiac Christian Brother Jubilees ROCSC ROCFC QUARTERLY Print Post Approved PPP 535216-00029 Rostrevor College Glen Stuart Road, Woodforde South Australia 5072 Telephone 08 8364 8200 Facsimile 08 8364 8396 email
[email protected] www.rostrevor.sa.edu.au 2 Palma Merenti From the Chairperson finally, the Victorian Government has heard and answered the call … even in the face of challenging economic times. In so doing, the Victorian Government has recognised: The right of parents and families to choose schools that they believe will best meet the needs of their children. The valuable contribution Catholic and Independent schools make in the provision of educational opportunity and the achievement of quality schooling. That parents and families have unfairly shouldered increasing responsibility for the costs that come with their decision Performing at the Presentation Night from Left: James Evenden, Ilario Spano and Alex Trevorrow to choose a Catholic or Independent school education for their children. The seriously under-whelming news is that, as a result, our state government Chair of the Board Report now invests less in Catholic and Delivered at Presentation Night Independent school students than any 24th November 2009 other State government in Australia - and, worse, the level of funding it is Last week, a newspaper headline providing is declining. shouted “State hands $2.1billion to non- Government funding of schools is a government schools” … but guess complex, emotional and hotly debated what? The newspaper wasn’t The topic.