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A view of schooling in Australia : Comments
By Phil Cullen, published 14/4/2009Since our country’s future is in our educational systems, we need to have schooling run by people who know what they are doing.
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It would be very dangerous not to have a comprehensive vetting process when selecting principals to spearhead curriculum reform.
I’ve worked with some fantastic principals and real shockers who would do a much better job flogging off the latest “get rich quick” scheme then the current crop of snake oil sellers.
The problem is that the salesmen and women work the system like experts to the detriment of both those colleagues who ask about the emperor’s lack of new clothes and the majority of students.
The critical mass of young, imaginative and intelligent teachers needed to implement change fizzled out years ago.
The culprits, in my mind, are careerist principals and their lazy obstructionist Heads of Departments. Smart young men and women leaving school have had little interest in becoming like them.