Taxpayers funding expensive educations for children of submarine designers

Australians working on the future submarine program in France are sending their children to a $53,000-a-year British boarding school at taxpayers' expense, because local classes are not taught in English.

The St John's College website advertises annual boarding and tuition fees for overseas students at £28,740, approximately $53,000, and says the school often hosts families"where parents serve in the Armed Forces".According to the Defence determination, Australian parents who send their children to St John's are eligible for travel costs when they start or end boarding school.

Evidence of the concerns held by ADF families about a lack of English-language education in Cherbourg can also be found in online chat forums.

Why is this news? Think of the impact on the family who is accompanying those serving the nation. The practicalities of the situation are anything but simple or desirable for the child or the family.

so what- taxpayers fund you

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