Well it’s the day after our federal elections and the very likely result is a hung parliament. If the Labour Government retains power we will continue with the naming and shaming of schools through the MySchools website and continuation of a funding scheme which directs extra funding to private schools instead of supporting our under-resourced government schools. If the Liberals win, we will have national tests every year, much more naming and shaming of schools on the MySchools website and a veryconservative approach to the Australian Curriculum which is currently being developed. Our teaching will become test driven and our curriculum will be narrowed. How depressing!
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Last I heard, Rita, is that there still wasn’t a clear winner in the elections… Is there an update? Believe me, we who live in Illinois can relate to a poorly managed, distracted government’s impact on education. I hope all has turned out well on your end… –> Ryan
Ryan
So the Labor Party (probably more aligned with your Democrats) has formed a minority government with the help of some independents. The good news is that we won’t have silly national standardised tests every year as proposed by the opposition party. Nevertheless the testing and naming and shaming of schools through league tables will continue.
Rita