Incompetent administrators More concerned with protecting/expanding bureaucratic empires. Teachers challenged with subject material they all to often know less about than their alleged students.

Exiting university with a head full of untried untested intellectual concepts and classrooms that are more like research labs where our kids are the lab rats?

A hopelessly cluttered curriculum and foundational subject material cast aside in favour of teacher's pet projects?

There needs to be root and branch reform and the fear factor removed with the removal of essentially incompetent teachers merely grooming kids to pass exams they have bred a fear of into their charges, due to how the results reflect on them and their competency?

Time to end the teacher-generated BS!

We need far more regional autonomy and a very different means-tested funding paradigm that puts the funding effectively in the hands of means-tested parents and goes with their kid(s)via enrollment numbers and nothing else! This would essentially sideline the empire-building bureaucrats and return their slice of the taxpayer contribution back t the coal face!

Finally, the curriculum must be decluttered and Stem subjects and phonics made compulsory and well advanced as a requisite for high school enrollment!

Little point advancing kids to higher learning when they don't have an adequate foundation to build it on!

And then allow all schools to compete for the education dollar!
Alan B.

Alan B,
Perfectly summed up !