Killara parody video
Nov. 15th, 2009 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfinblazeOk, I need to share this because it's brilliant.
Does everyone remember those QANTAS ads to the song "I Still Call Australia Home?" If not, here's a YouTube link.
There's a school in Sydney, Killara High School, that's done a parody video. Here's a link to the parody. It was put together by the school's 2009 year 12 students (ie the students that finished school this year), and it features a commentary on the Australian government's lopsided funding for schools. (Basically the Australian government gives more funding to wealthy private schools than to comprehensive public schools, that's more money per student. The logic being they supposedly produce better results so they deserve more funding. You work out that logic, because I'm failing.) The link goes to a longer video of the year group, but the parody is included in it.
Among other things the video shows a whole lot of demountable classrooms, rather than proper buildings, and a flooded schoolyard, because the school doesn't have the money to fund proper drainage, let alone rebuild the school yard so it doesn't flood in the first place.
And Killara is among the best public schools in the state!
I'm very amused and impressed.
Does everyone remember those QANTAS ads to the song "I Still Call Australia Home?" If not, here's a YouTube link.
There's a school in Sydney, Killara High School, that's done a parody video. Here's a link to the parody. It was put together by the school's 2009 year 12 students (ie the students that finished school this year), and it features a commentary on the Australian government's lopsided funding for schools. (Basically the Australian government gives more funding to wealthy private schools than to comprehensive public schools, that's more money per student. The logic being they supposedly produce better results so they deserve more funding. You work out that logic, because I'm failing.) The link goes to a longer video of the year group, but the parody is included in it.
Among other things the video shows a whole lot of demountable classrooms, rather than proper buildings, and a flooded schoolyard, because the school doesn't have the money to fund proper drainage, let alone rebuild the school yard so it doesn't flood in the first place.
And Killara is among the best public schools in the state!
I'm very amused and impressed.
