I chose private co-ed. The reason I chose co-ed is that I would like all my children to go to the same school and also I'm not really into gender segragation. The reason I chose private is that I would like them to attend an Islamic school. My experience in Australian shools and DH's as well has been that they teach in a very Eurocentric way. If your not "aussie" you end up wondering why your history, language and culture are deemed unimportant. I would like my children to learn Arabic and all the Islamic schools teach it from yr 1 onwards. In addition they teach Middle Eastern and Asian history as well as Australian history. The only problem is that the best ones have waiting lists as long as your arm and a couple of them achieve very high HSC marks but seem to do so by neglecting other aspects of personal and physical development and asking students who do not atain high grades to leave which I think would be quite damaging to thier self esteem.
I'm putting Yasin down for a few of them and when he's older I'll send him to whichever one seems to suit his abilities and personality the best.