Post by NFA on May 11, 2024 19:49:30 GMT 8
All smiles at photo time, but where’s the help for support staff
Vikki Campion
How can teaching be “one of the most important jobs in this country” for the Prime Minister and simultaneously fail to warrant support staff?
On one hand, Anthony Albanese glorifies and reveres education, using students as props in flashy photo shoots at public schools this week.
On the other, he allows his state counterparts to freeze the hard-saved funds in NSW public school accounts, slashes budgets, and threatens to lay off support staff.
If you are a teacher who requires the support of a teacher’s aide or a learning support worker or a parent whose kid needs a little extra help in the classroom, how does it feel to be left short by the party of free education?
All the bon mot and flowery rhetoric about how public school education is the foundation of the beauty of the world seems to have fallen off like Humpty Dumpty when Labor has to back it up with action.
After all the campaigning the teachers’ unions did for the Labor Party at the last election, urging voters to bring in an Albanese government for fully-funded public schools, three years into this experiment, not one public classroom in NSW is fully funded.
Last October, Mr Albanese was eulogising his economics teacher for changing his life when he announced $10m in advertising to recruit teachers in a campaign, which, like the Voice, helped advertising greasers’ bank accounts more than the kids in need.
He gives us a fireside chat on the mythology of his school days, the economics teacher and Catholic brother who made him captain, but his vision stops in the 1970s.
Where is his empathy for the children going through school in 2024?
The ones, lockdown affected, who are behind in math, writing and reading and need that extra support?
Vikki Campion
How can teaching be “one of the most important jobs in this country” for the Prime Minister and simultaneously fail to warrant support staff?
On one hand, Anthony Albanese glorifies and reveres education, using students as props in flashy photo shoots at public schools this week.
On the other, he allows his state counterparts to freeze the hard-saved funds in NSW public school accounts, slashes budgets, and threatens to lay off support staff.
If you are a teacher who requires the support of a teacher’s aide or a learning support worker or a parent whose kid needs a little extra help in the classroom, how does it feel to be left short by the party of free education?
All the bon mot and flowery rhetoric about how public school education is the foundation of the beauty of the world seems to have fallen off like Humpty Dumpty when Labor has to back it up with action.
After all the campaigning the teachers’ unions did for the Labor Party at the last election, urging voters to bring in an Albanese government for fully-funded public schools, three years into this experiment, not one public classroom in NSW is fully funded.
Last October, Mr Albanese was eulogising his economics teacher for changing his life when he announced $10m in advertising to recruit teachers in a campaign, which, like the Voice, helped advertising greasers’ bank accounts more than the kids in need.
This week, he continued on as a sentimental bloke, crediting a brother from his Catholic college with changing his life after making him a footy captain.
He released a sepia throwback of his schoolboy days while his NSW counterparts continued their assault on teachers’ aides.
He gives us a fireside chat on the mythology of his school days, the economics teacher and Catholic brother who made him captain, but his vision stops in the 1970s.
Where is his empathy for the children going through school in 2024?
The ones, lockdown affected, who are behind in math, writing and reading and need that extra support?