hasbeen:"We only got a reasonable result for my son, after I convinced him it was him loosing out, not the teacher."

I've taken exactly the same approach with my kids. My son has thrived on it, but my daughter feels a bit crushed by the weight of personal responsibility, I think. It's also hard when their mother doesn't insist on any formal homework or study time, preferring to farm it out to tutors, which means I am constantly battling to make it happen when at my place and the kids actively avoid coming over at times for that reason. I can't blame them for that, I'd have done the same as a child.

I'm afraid the school thinks I'm something of a pain in the neck, which I'm quite proud to be. Another of the problems being caused by their mother is absenteeism and the school was simply not addressing it. It took a very public threat to make a formal departmental complaint before anything was done.

I don't blame the teachers for the poor outcomes, but I do blame them for not caring enough about achieving better ones.

Ah, The Australian bulk Immigration system is truly working at last.

All the dead wood australian families are struggling to survive while we immigrate the best, cheapest brains the world offers to take their place. This is NATION BUILDING and DEMOCRACY at its best:

Kill off all the weak loosers and replace them with folk that appreciate the LAbor and Liberal Coalition Governments in their turn. Folk we all can look up to and who are appreciative enough to VOTE for US, for NO mining taxes and making pepole PAY through the nose for any NBN content that could possibly allow them to get ahead in life.

Australia's starting to look a lot like like a first world NATION at last. A nation where rich people get richer while securing loyalty by PRETENDING to trickle down their riches to the lower classes.

And all the extra immigrant & boat-people GST going to reducing corporate taxes!

I'm so proud, I feel a tear coming on!

Zeich Heil!

JB Pitbull
CEO
BHP Gro-a-Con Forteskewer Corporation