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NAPLAN and bullying : Comments

By Phil Cullen, published 29/3/2018

The truth is that the instrument of anxiety-creation is NAPLAN

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If as you claim as oft times before Phil. NAPLAN is creating fear and anxiety, it's the resisting teachers, non compliant principles and school administrators creating it?

And, I believe, because they to a generic man, want to abandon a system that all but demands they be accountable for outcomes! And the whole of life outcomes that flow from that!

NAPLAN is not about argumentative noncompliant (rebels without a cause) "paycheque" teachers, but rather about our kids and their best possible outcomes and who is failing them in that quest!

As many who follow will argue, both exams and phonetics were part of a more successful FONDATIONAL education system; even with all its perceived flaws and capital punishment!

Time to end the obfuscation and BS campaign and just get on doing the job you're paid for! None of which is related to creating public policy.

If the same old same old, foundational teaching, is boring and passé? Not your cup of tea? Find another occupation!

If literacy and numeracy outcomes were an improving statistic, one might find some credence in your diverse arguments?

However given that the opposite is true and illiteracy and innumeracy is a growing comparative statistic! Your many counterproductive dissenting arguments have little merit and even less to recommend them!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 29 March 2018 10:19:50 AM
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Great stuff.
Some references which prove that a competitive environment is completely detrimental to every childs emotional state and thus their full-brain intellectual capacities.
On the function of the Precognitive Heart - which is instantaneously shut down in in the heart-stress inducing situation of competitive environments.
http://www.heartmath.org/research/science-of-the-heart/outcome-studies-in-education

The lesson from the proven Heartmath research is that a students availability to his or her own full-brain intellectual capacities is determined by his or her emotional state. Thus, the establishment of a nurturing, unthreatening ambient environment for students is the first and primary principle for any learning situation.
Thus a student, on being called to perform - that is, be tested - will have far less access to his or her own true level of integrated intelligence and actual capacity, and subsequently left only with the feeling of inadequacy that so many (most) students feel.

http://www.alfiekohn.org/article/case-competition

http://www.alfiekohn.org/standards-testing

http://www.alfiekohn.org/standards-and-testing/case-tougher-standards
Posted by Daffy Duck, Thursday, 29 March 2018 10:45:22 AM
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Either Phil Cullen has a different definition of "bullying" to the rest of the world, or he's completely failed to explain what's going on.
Posted by Aidan, Thursday, 29 March 2018 10:47:13 AM
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This article is a joke right?
One test every two years is bullying?
Now I’m left wondering how previous generations not only survived but had better literacy levels after being subjected to exams at the end of every year. And no multiple choice! We had to write down answers to questions.
And back in my day the year ten and twelve exams weren’t even held at our schools, they were in a huge public building and every child from schools in the area sat the exam at the same time. In Adelaide the exams were held at the Showgrounds.
And we didn’t receive a school certificate for just attending. Our year ten and twelve certificates actually had our grades listed so prospective employers could see what level English, maths, history etc you achieved.
We are breeding a race of wimps!
Posted by Big Nana, Thursday, 29 March 2018 11:16:12 AM
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Mental health and children were never mentioned in the same breath before Marxist teachers’ unions and manipulators started brainwashing them rather than educating them. Are these the “monumental changes” this teacher is referring to? Using kids to push the Left political agenda and filling their heads with dangerous garbage they are too young to understand and deal with?.

NAPLAN as an “ instrument of anxiety-creation” is hogwash used by rubbish teachers who don't like the test revealing how incompetent and/or ideologically driven they are.

“Keep bullying the brats”? What tosh! The bullies are the teachers, shoving non-educational SSM, gender-bending and Marxist culture down young throats. If that doesn't apply to all teachers, that's tough. Young minds are more important than the sensitivities and personal values of school teachers. This bloke and his colleagues are crapping themselves because NAPLAN is showing them up for the unprofessional political activists they are.

“Mass child abuse”? He would know all about that.
Posted by ttbn, Thursday, 29 March 2018 11:38:28 AM
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What complete & utter garbage.

The very worst thing schools can do by our kids is to mollycoddle them through 12 years, avoiding all stress & competition then chuck them out into the real world, where the competition for jobs & success is fierce.

We can't all go into the public service, or some soft cop like teaching, where incompetence is no hindrance to advancement so schools should get tougher, & really testing. Kids need to be made immune to testing, & able to handle a bit of stress, before they hit the nasty streets & job market.

We had school inspectors when I was a kid. Those with a brain knew the inspectors were there to test the teachers. The teachers tried to put fear of these inspectors into us, but we were tougher than todays petals. With this system, unlike today, the incompetent teachers were moved out of the job, before they could ruin too many kids lives.

We had real tests every week, & every month, plus the really serious ones biannually. Fail the end of year exams, & you stayed back in the same grade next year.

School sports were the same. Someone won, & someone came last. If it mattered to you, you did some training, & got better, but for most we simply knew that you can't be good at everything & many don't want to do everything. We got on with other things, but we knew we were going to do poorly at some things, & accepted it.

It could be fun too. I had a hand injury for the Intermediate history exam. Even I had trouble reading my writing. The History master marked my paper to 49.5%, a pass, not even looking at the last 2 questions. This must have taken some extra effort to do. Across the rest he scrawled, "If you want more marks than this, come back next year & interpret this rubbish". He was a good teacher & a great bloke. We all liked him.
Posted by Hasbeen, Thursday, 29 March 2018 11:41:21 AM
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