So true!

Poor old teachers. Bulldust! Most teachers are Left-wing twits, more interested in brainwashing kids with global warming propaganda, sexual perversions and Marxism in general. The few good teachers are to be found in private schools. The majority of kids, unable to access private education, come out totally usesless with rare exceptions - below the level of their counterparts in Kazakhstan, according to a recent report.

kids who are going to State schools are certainly getting a raw deal in many instances Peter. What the blind educators fail to see is that the secular failed dogmas has created some of these zoos. They actually believe by pouring even more billions into a hopelessly flawed system that things will improve. Its as dumb as believing that the child grooming safe schools program will reduce suicide.

Sure, teaching is real easy.
Do as the man says- go in and teach Scripture one hot Friday afternoon, or art, or anything.
See how easy it is!
And their pay is great, too.......

Oh noes! A country that I'm completely ignorant of just beat us in a math test that I don't understand! Our education system must be crap and teachers are to blame. They should all quit and find real jobs, that will fix our schools.

TRIPE!

And underlines as nothing else can, that teaching is not a pay packet but a vocation for folks, with character! Not PHD's in triplicate! Kids are not laboratory rats!

What is it they say about leading a horse to water? Or indeed, making sure the camel takes enough water on board to last the entire journey.

Even dogs can be made into model well behaved pets with enough early days socialization.

And that's why we need early child care. And where all the potential bullies are turned around to become the protectors of the weak and vulnerable!

We need a very different funding model to repair the current raft of problems with teaching, and that starts by putting need front and centre and placing means tested funding in the hands or control of directing parents.

Leaving schools, with no other choice but adopt best practices, benchmarking competition to ensure their share of funding/student numbers.

Add complete regional autonomy and you deal out huge chunks of absolutely unessential costly bureaucracy, as well as reduce the risible role of homogenizing unions!

The cream will rise to the top, but only if the milk remains homogenized!

And given a best practise model is freed from the race to managed mediocrity/unionization! The best teachers, will be offered as much permanency as they want and the best conditions, we can afford!

The climate, currently beyond our control!

Industrial action Peter? And then we wonder why folks are turning off moribund unions and their, thick as two planks, control, in droves!
Alan B.