You know when you are dealing with a rough argument when the writer of the lead article could not have bothered to get his information checked.

I cite: "After all, through what logic do we accommodate eight different curricula in a population of just over 20 million."

Pretty much everyone knows that is wrong. The ACT clones the NSW curriculum and uses its public exams. The NT almost always uses SA curriculum materials, save for adjusting some units for meteorological, geographical and local relevance.

So it's six or fewer curricula, people!

You know the problem really isn't in the curriculum. The problem is the fact that the age/years do not correspond from state to State. The student having to either repeat a year or skip a year when they move States. Why cant these ages/years match?

There is also the problem that within the grades in any given year, in all states, there is an easy 2 year plus difference for some in age and development. That is significant. The range can be just as huge as it can be small.

I believe that the system is set up to deliberately jumble and confuse so as to make it easy to manipulate outcomes to suit certain groups and agenda's.

Jolanda, you have to be pulling our leg. or are you serious.

No Tootsie I am not kidding I am dead serious and I have even got significant evidence to support what I say.

Jolanda, so you have proof that the system is set up to deliberately jumble and confuse so as to make it easy to manipulate outcomes to suit certain groups and agenda's.

Yeh right, like to see that

Deliberately - so you think THE GOVERNMENT and the DET are doing this.

WOW - I see.

Great I am glad that you see Tootsie. It's about time you saw the light.