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Poor kids; poor parents; poor future : Comments
By Phil Cullen, published 16/7/2010Without a doubt education is a turbulent mess in Australia, for which we can thank Julia Gillard.
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I wrote this article trying to draw attention to the dangers of a politically-motivated, learning-destructive, unilaterally-decided conversion of a school learning-based system to a hard-data one....and what sort of response did I get ? Fish smwlls...bureaucratic bungles...back to basics...schoolyard discipline...pay rise...'when I went to school' stuff.
It was a real failure. Except for some comments from some serial commentators and two new-comers to OLO, no interest was shown. Two of the seven serial writers were vitriolic. See above. Overall, it seemed to illustrate that disinterest in schooling is very, very high. At least it gave Oto a chance to converse with Vanna on topics that were not connected to this particular patch.
As GlenC said, "That's the way it is." Teachers and parents will probably vote the way they are used to voting; and I am wasting my time trying to get them to think deeply about the effects of testing on the future of this country. My short CV from the later end of my working life was no help, as it gave you both a chance to indulge. No sweat. As one of 'them', I'm hard to hurt.