FED: Howard anti-public school snob; Australian Greens

AAP General News (Australia)
01-20-2004
FED: Howard anti-public school snob; Australian Greens

By Libby Sutherland

HOBART, Jan 20 AAP - Prime Minister John Howard was today branded an anti-public school
snob by the Australian Greens over his views on the state education system.

Mr Howard has attributed the shift of students from public to private schools to too
much political correctness in the government school system.

He told The Age and The Australian newspapers the state system was also too values-neutral.

Australian Greens leader Senator Bob Brown today accused Mr Howard of taking a "small
town snob attitude" to …