Private school students


Lowbottom High Diaries: Student refugees of the GFC

Casualties of the economic shipwreck are washing up at the entrance of Lowbottom in increasing numbers, writes Trevor Diogenes.

Lowbottom High Diaries: Xavier goes wild, the state schools snigger

We in the government system have not taken such gloating enjoyment at the discomfort of the Xavier College authorities since, well, the last time they were discomforted, writes Trevor Diogenes.

Lowbottom High diaries: the dark science of subsidy

Every Friday, Crikey’s mole by the microwave in a middle suburban state high staffroom will document the ins and outs of the sometimes rewarding, always underpaid, often challenging life of the secondary teacher.