Struggle for independence

As to that last comment, isn’t most of the drivel Chris Pyne calls policy, been highly selective and misleading. I have seen the cronyism which occurs in public schools already, and truly believe that this would only become worse if principals and school councils are allowed to become more empowered. The fact that autonomy will lead to less teachers having permanency in schools (as seen in Victoria) will lead to principals being able to load more and more extras on to an already packed classroom teachers workload. People will be too scared to say ‘No’ if they are concerned their employment will be terminated. Most teachers are already working twice their ‘paid’ hours but, according to our ‘overworked’ politicians, this is still not good enough. All I can see that this idea will do is create more stress amongst teaching staff and provide less effective teachers and, as a result, a reduction in educational performance.