There is a grave danger when an overprivileged individual leverages the network of an exclusive school to rise effortlessly into a senior position.
Teachers are at the centre of a plan to introduce laws that prevent workers being contacted out of office hours. But are we trying to solve the wrong problem?
No other government would subject parents to a school system that forces them to consider their kids as customers. And you know what? No other country does.
I was the inaugural principal of a school built for co-teaching,a model where two teachers worked together with around 50 students. Then the trouble began. Poor behaviour soared,students fell through the cracks,the noise was too much.
Instead of the classic boys and girls bathrooms,a Victorian primary school has opted for unisex toilets. But is this the education hill we should die on?
We’re running out of teachers and constantly shouting at them isn’t helping.
Parents and schools squabbling over the colour of a student’s hair is as edifying as two toddlers scrapping over which coloured sippy cup they want.
I’m a primary school teacher by trade who began my career in early childhood. And I’m really proud of that. But on more than one occasion,I lied about my job,knowing it was a conversational pothole.
So impossible will it be in the artificial intelligence future for any teacher to determine the integrity of any student’s learning when not in their direct supervision,that the very formula for educating them will be forced to change. The entire model of schooling may be flipped on its head.
You can’t separate the teacher shortage crisis from what’s become known as ‘the funding wars’ in education.
The sudden closure of the Colmont School in Melbourne’s north sent a shockwave through the school’s community,but it likely won’t be the last private school on the chopping block as budgets tighten and funds redirect to a sector with higher returns.