I can predict the posts already:

HRS: "First thing we need to do is get the feminist ideology out of current educational thinking"

Jolanda: "This is why my kids have had to suffer so much"

Let's hope I'm wrong, but I don't predict much robust comment in the Education section of OLO in the near future.

How disingeneous of the Centre for Independent Studies to profess concern about raising education standards in rural and remote areas. As if CIS is really concerned about social equity issues. This article is just another justification for restricting teachers pay.

The Victorian education authorities struggle to retain graduate teachers for 5 years because those who are lucky enough to get a job are employed on contracts that terminate in December and recommence in February. After 3 years the Graduate is classified as Teacher grade and the job they have been doing is filled by another Graduate at lower pay. Meanwhile the teacher still has to pay back their university fees.

If you want teachers to spend their efforts teaching children then you need to review the bureaucratic paperwork that is mandatory to check for relevance, meaningfulness and palm off the essentials to administrative staff.

Teachers of my acquaintance are totally flummoxed by the new national report card standards from A to E. From a statistical point of view its easy because each school has a particular ranking in the state, so each child in the school will get the same rank. Kind of meaningless for any parent interested in following their child's progress.

Why does Kirsten prefer the CIS to working in a classroom? Is it the continuity of employment, the better pay or higher status of her research position?