How all this (the so-called "Acacia College" issue) arose - and the failure of anyone to accept responsibility - is still an issue for me. The Moderator says there's no single person or group to be blame for this. Maybe, but this hasn't prevented the consequences being felt far and wide. At Armadale, we're impacted because some of the Parish's property is to be sold (although not the Church itself), and it looks as though we're going to have to share the Church complex with an agency (some of whose property is being sold).
Yes, I'm doing my best to be generous of spirit, but........
I was a founding director of the Melbourne Anglican Schools Commission in 2005, which with many tribulations established nearby Hume Anglican Grammar. School funding is not rocket science, providing and that is a big word, capital expenditure is closely matched to time. In fact the Melbourne Anglicans are treating Hume as an investment, ie the original low fee concept has been turned into a mid fee concept with the church acting as land provider at economic rent, and banker for capital loans at economic interest. I resigned with a written protest about that policy, but the Anglicans have been seared by a previous school failure in Bendigo.
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