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As the husband of a senior teacher who works herself into the ground, I would say the following are serious issues of the Educational system:
1. Stop changing the curriculum! Teachers have to do an amazing amount of lesson planning and moving the goal posts only make things worse (and you would not believe how poor centralised teaching resources are)
2. Parents, parents, parents. The very fact that you are interested Stu, excludes you from this category. Whilst mythbusters showed us that in special circumstances, you can polish a poo, teachers can't - they simply don't have the time. Sorry, but parents need to up their game.
3. Centralised control of positions. Would you believe it - the allocation of teachers is handled by the faceless state bureaucrats! Most people don't like doing a job badly and when found in that position, look elsewhere to find something more suitable. Marcus, your physics teacher was probably just as horrified to be teaching the subject! My experienced humanities teaching wife taught freekin maths last year and has no way of leaving the stoopid place...
Grrrrrrr, I could go on for a very long time. And how many of my top three were covered by Gonski - NOT ONE.
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