The teachers union; one union John Howard could not toss ( unfortunately).

The problem with DET is a union which wags the dog. The other unfortunate for education, is the affiliation of the teachers union with the ideologically corrupt Labor Party. (Teaching kids to be homosexuals).

Education has become a game of Mexican stand-off.

NAPLAN is just another jigsaw piece in the power play, and will fall by the wayside eventually.

Public schools need to be splintered and sold off to private providers. That will break the back of the union and give all kids a fair go!

When governments started seeing humans as commodities they scrapped the idea of education which used to be a preparation for life and now merely prepare children for the workforce.

Deeming this to be a testable issue, like measuring profit and loss they have left education out and replaced it with a set of figures which can be blamed on someone other than them if it is not working.

If government got out of the classroom and let teachers do what they are trained for and very capable of, then our children would have a real opportunity for education.

And while governments are staying out of the teaching business perhaps they could stop interrupting lessons by seeking political mileage in classrooms during elections. There really are not many Year one to three children who vote.
I have noticed the politicians rarely go into High School classrooms . Could this be because there might be questions?