and in The Age here:
As a practicing teacher, you just get tired of it. We've just had the VELS curriculum shoved down our throats and now the federal government is having its go at it. (VELS is a farce but I'll write about that later.)
Rudd promises it will drive up retention rates, improve student performance, blah, blah, blah. How it will do this is never explained. If it is like every other initiative it will die through lack of resources. They produce plenty of paper work and then expect teachers to put it into practice, all on top of all the work they are still expected to do.
I notice that there don't appear to be any teachers on this new National Curriculum Board. That's really gone to help it work! The Age notes that unions will not be on the Board. Predictably, they're complaining about that but they're pretty useless anyway, at least in Victoria.
About the only advantage I can see is for the kids who are transferring between the states and territories.
The best way to fix all the problems is to get rid of all the states and territories with all their inefficiencies and duplicate bureaucracies. But that isn't going to happen as the state MPs have their own interests to look after.
With a bit of luck I will have retired before the waste begins.
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