Save Our Schools supports the social equity goal of the existing National Goals for Schooling.
It opposes replacing this goal with the much weaker commitment to high quality schooling free of discrimination as proposed in the draft National Declaration on the Goals for Schooling.
The Future of Schooling in Australia report fails to make a case for this change. The large achievement gaps between students from low and high socio-economic status families and between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students are the major challenges facing the Australian school system.
Achieving social equity in school outcomes should remain a key national goal for schooling.