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Queensland Smart State? More like Vacuum State! : Comments
By John Ridd, published 9/2/2009Two major studies demonstrate, beyond any argument, that the situation in Queensland education is grave.
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I have three sons ploughing through the Qld 'edumacation' system.
Two have passed out the other end, one still battles daily with mindless Ed Qld silliness dressed up as 'in pursuit of excellence'.
It is not, it is low grade, badly managed, gormless, nit-picking, dull, empty and largely a waste of time.
Ed Qld resent parents who ask why the English reading books are 30 yaers old, why the maths books are poorly written with wrong answers, questions and examples, why the science books, highlighted by an ex-principal, are useless...all falls on deaf ears at the school, district, region, DGs door, and finally at the feet of the Minister.
No one cares, but most of all, none of them have any desire to self examine, listen, or read the results.
What was Welliegogs answer to 'the tests'?
Our underperfoming teaching staff will now drop all and start to 'teach the tests'.
As they do already with the QCS test, with 12 months of cramming to lift the results.
And of course, the amount of time Ed Qld spends promoting 'chaplains' and RI instead of maths, science (where despite Ed Qld denials Intelligent Design is allowed to be taught across Qld) real English and whatever else, is just shocking.
It's not so much the fact that our state schools are now defacto evangelical recruiting grounds, so much as the lack of intelligence on the part of the school principals who mistake all this as being a benefit.
The Ed Qld teachers job description requires teachers to attend to all levels of students. They do not. They cater to the poorest students first, who consume time, and are neither supported by worthwhile PD, nor sufficient materials, nor support staff, nor intelligent leadership, nor any hint of imagination.
All this is endorsed by aquiescent P&Cs, an EQ compliant QCPCA, and a totally silent QTU, topped off by parents who want nothing to do with the schools because they know there is no point in questioning anything.... coupled with their memories of their own time in school.