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‘Designed to be provocative’: Stuart Robert defends controversial ‘dud teachers’ remarks
Education Minister Stuart Robert has defended blaming “dud” public school teachers for dragging down academic results, saying his comments were “designed to be provocative”.
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So public schools having to cater for all levels of society and all levels of behaviour issues is not the reason for public schools having ‘dud’ results? If private schools didn’t have the right to pick and choose who attends their schools, mostly those with the funds to do so or without the behaviour issues or the academic disadvantages, would their teachers cope with what public school teachers deal with every day? I have taught classes with 40-50% diagnosed with some form of learning disability most of the 16 years I have been teaching. And yet, this federal government believes funding private education is more important than funding public schools? Roll on election time and let’s vote these muppets out!
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As a public school primary teacher and principal, I take great exception to some politician making ill founded, offensive, remarks about public schools based on a private school conference he attended and his own private school upbringing.
What about looking at incompetent parenting as a major contributor? No, this Federal Government would NOT do that. After all, they have an election to win ( or, hopefully lose) and they cannot afford to offend anyone, even right wing nutters who make baseless claims about public schools with NO evidence whatsoever, except their own bigotry!