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By John Ridd, published 14/4/2010Queensland Studies Authority must not be allowed to ruin the National curriculum.
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The QSA is a closed and darkened shop, with representatives of the churches on it, as well as the QTU and QCPCA and EQ.
Allowing that the QTU rep probably has an understanding of 'education', that leaves questions as to why the churches are there, and the QCPCA, a group of 'lay' parents, most of whom wouldn't be equipped to make decisions on what should go in the curriculum.
The QSA and EQ still allow, indeed even encourage, ID and Creationsim to be taught in Science in public schools.
One has to hope a national plan would outlaw that stupidity, because Geoff Wilson refuses to.... along with the EQ curriculum for Bible Lessons, similar to what Abbott wants to bring in across the nation-state we live in.
Well Dur may need to be told how poor our schools are by Masters, but many parents know this from bitter experience when they try to shake-up the schools lazy thinking on 'extending' studnets.
Welford created some private school look-alikes and called them 'Academies'. These are in Brisbane, so hard luck if you live in RARA land. When these show ponies were getting going, the first item of discussion was 'the uniform'.
Incredible ability to prioritise educational issues- but that is EQ for you.
I have a child doing Maths B at the moment. The teacher is well known to be anti-student, and to send students marks and interest levels to cellar levels of interest. Students try to move out to other classes, or give up and do Maths A instead.
Does the school care? Not at all. The HOD acknowledges the problems and keeps silent, parents get fed up, students give up.
Such is the norm when things go badly wrong within EQ.
Any highlighting of deficiencies is deeply resented, denied, and then ignored.
Whatever might be missing, according to Well Dur, from the authors article, what is undeniable is that EQ needs to be put down, and rebuilt, preferably with people from other states, maybe even countries, to give our students a chance.