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Going Backski : Comments

By Angelo Gavrielatos, published 17/6/2014

Christopher Pyne and Tony Abbott have confirmed what many have long suspected: they run a government which feels no responsibility for government schools.

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No more money till they Edacation / Indoctrination Complex proves that all the extra money lavished in the last decades has done any good. Goneski is merely more of the same ineffectual same, don't forget that such waste can be directly attributable to the need for a Medicare co-payment. See if a teacher can pick the spelling, many can't.
Posted by McCackie, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 8:09:55 AM
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Neither Gavrielatos nor anybody else in the education putsch has come up with an original thought about education since the Karmel report in 1973.

The teachers' union regurgitates the same old "more money" campaign year after year, much of it going to reduce class sizes and thus increase union revenue. Yet smaller class sizes have coincided with a steady decline in educational standards.

Logically, we should reduce funding for education and increase class sizes so that educational standards can improve.

Of course, that would also require finding teachers who are numerate and literate - probably too much to ask.
Posted by cato, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 8:56:14 AM
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The reason why they don't want class sizes to go above 30 students is because most teachers would not be able to count them.
It's all about funding for teachers & administration staff & not about education at all. This has been proven by years of providing increasing funding yet the kids are now far less enlightened & competent than ever.
Posted by individual, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 9:21:37 AM
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Can this clown, Angelo, not know that government schools are run by the states, not the Commonwealth? With the quality of teachers today, it would not be all that surprising.

Obviously he & his union are terrified of any education model that may reduce the number of sheltered workshops for his union's members. No company run school would employ a huge number of the current teachers, nor suffer the feather bedding that goes on in state schools.

There's not much any government can do for education in state schools, without first clearing out the incompetent education union members. Perhaps that should be Tony's target, immediately after cleaning out the ABC.
Posted by Hasbeen, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 9:36:56 AM
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So, what else is new?
As another poster puts it, it's gone-ski!
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 3:57:26 PM
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Affordable tutoring, for those who either want to learn, or who's parents insist they learn would be a far more productive way to spend money WE DON'T HAVE rather than to just tip more into what is a broken system.

And McCackie you're right, so many of the unpopular budget cuts and increases to the likes of Medicare, are as a direct result of the wasted billion we have seen in the past six years of the two previous governments.

You can't spend like a drunken sailor, achieve little and continue to spend without at some point, someone saying, enough is enough.

As for the proposed tax levy, it's ironic that those who contributed most to the wasted billions, high income earners, are now facing even more taxes to plug the hole they didn't create.

I must say it's a balanced budget, because few are escaping the net, even if it is tough.
Posted by rehctub, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 4:15:18 PM
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