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Originally Posted by renormalised
One way to fix that, Mark (and make the idiots sit up and take notice). Refuse to teach, point blank, and state your reasons why. Make a huge hullabaloo about it and spread it as far and wide as you can. Get it in the national media. Show up the academics in their little ivory towers and the (equally ignorant) politicians who implement the garbage in legislation. Get everyone who's concerned about the state of our education system to support the drive to get back to educating our kids properly and stop filling their heads with the nonsense they promulgate these days.
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Carl, we have just finished and won a 15 year battle to overturn and remove bad educational theory from curriculum in WA. Basically it came down to a group of chem and physics teachers who would not give up no matter how much flak they copped. This stuff is enshrined in law over here and the last state govt had to be removed before any progress could be made. As a result people are just tired or have left the sector in search of a better life. I really don't know if the teaching proffession in WA has enough left to take on another fight like this. I imagine it is similar in many other states as well. At least the national standards testing has forced some welcome change and it appears to be going in a big circle all on it's own. Problem is that there are a lot of people (read your children) that have received a substandard level of education in the last 15 or so years, all in the name of a bunch of misguided do gooders. Makes me very angry.
Mark