Jon Biddell wrote:
> >its just insane, no one can tell me that a base install of your glossy
> >linux distros are hard to use. Whats wrong with teaching c? or how
> >abotu using glade? (i think thats he right one)
> >spend a bit more money on a few good unix teachers, and still make a
> >saving, whilst teaching established standards
>
> My point exactly (and DON'T get me started on striking teachers - that's
> what I feel like doing to some of them !!)...
>
Hmm, so once again, teachers get blamed for the effects of changes
made by interferring parents and politicians. We now have a system
where you have to "look good", so is it any wonder that teachers teach
for the imposed external tests, rather than teaching standards.
"Teaching standards"? Did you know that there are not any now. There
are no curriculum defined the NSW dept. Each school is supposed to
develop their own.
Where else do you have to buy from your employer a book that tells you
what you are supposed to be doing? The Dept no longer actually prints
and distributes enough subject information booklets for all teachers
who need them. Rather, it gets as many printed as the amount of
commercial sponsorship allows.
Sorry, folks, but two things happened in this household. My wife, a
teacher, is no longer allowed to work more hours in the year than the
equivalent of a 40 hour per week job. So now she stops work of an
evening at 9pm instead of the 11pm+ that she previously did.
Second was I saw the cost of the stationery that the dept fails to
provide for her to do the reports they require and to do work in the
classroom. It gets claimed off tax, but it is still a large deduction
from her pay packet. I've stopped helping with anything to do with the
school.
As I continually remind my wife "You can not save children from their
parents" Not just the ones that spend their money on drugs (tobacco,
alchohol and the illegals), or abuse their children in various ways,
or buy them junk food, toys, nintendo, tun on the Tv at 5am and
totally ignore their children, but also the ones who totally expect
the schools to educate their child in every way. It is a miracle any
child learns anything at school with all the special programs they
have to run to make up for parents who really don't give a toss about
taking responsibility.
How much money did you spend on toys as presents for kids last year?
How much did you spend on books as presents for kids last year?
Every child that my wife has had to do special intervention reading
course with has come from a home where there are NO books. Even
suppossedly good homes are almost book free zones.
Put your own house in order and accept responsibility for educating
your children, nieces and nephews and other kids before you start
blaming teachers, who are being asked to do more and more for less and
less.
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