{"id":1213,"date":"2010-01-31T09:13:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T23:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/?page_id=1213"},"modified":"2012-07-16T23:28:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T13:28:27","slug":"28-jan-frau-gillards-web","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/?page_id=1213","title":{"rendered":"28 Jan. ’10 – The Gillard web."},"content":{"rendered":"

GILLARD’S\u00a0 WEB<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

28 JANUARY 2010 – A Day to Remember.
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Pupil-oriented schooling is neutered.
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<\/strong>This date too must be remembered as an important date in Australia’s education history.\u00a0 28 January, 2010. The curriculum-destructive\u00a0My School <\/em>was published by ACARA. It is an historical occasion that \u00a0marks the demise of pupil-oriented schooling in Australia.\u00a0\u00a0The site\u00a0opened today as a curiosity item and worked for her-who-must-be-obeyed.\u00a0\u00a0There were millions of\u00a0hits from the curious…\u00a0so it was judged to be\u00a0\u00a0a success.<\/p>\n

‘The Week’ magazine [29 January 2010] portrayed the incident well on its front cover.\u00a0The brilliant John Tiedemann cartoon showed\u00a0the all-powerful, supreme commander standing in front of a chalk-board looking very stern indeed. She is holding a cane, bent, ready to use. The cowed teachers are before her, with one, a little\u00a0dunce, quivering in the corner.\u00a0\u00a0On the chalk-board in large letters is ‘SCHOOLS ON TRIAL\u00a0 Miss Gillard Sets the Test.”\u00a0\u00a0The cartoon\u00a0is an historical gem.<\/p>\n

The already-available school supplied website of\u00a0each\u00a0school provides all the information needed by most parents. If I want to check out what\u00a0\u00a0any school does, I’m old enough to sense\u00a0whether it provides for my child’s interests. Some school sites are a bit slack at this time of the year\u00a0\u00a0and I confess to checking to see who is telling the parents about the consequences of blanket testing and providing a form for those who wish to withdraw.\u00a0Surely that is fair to all concerned.\u00a0I’m disappointed so far. As a parent I demand to know what is going on at my school, state-wide and nation-wide and I want to hear it from my Principal. I’d like to know where my Principal stands on issues…in print, preferably.<\/p>\n

Apropos : In 2007, Chris Bonnor and Jane Caro wrote “THE STUPID COUNTRY – \u00a0\u00a0How Australia is Dismantlng Public Education<\/em>.”\u00a0\u00a0Its\u00a0candidness about our move to a two-class education system, as you will know, is enlightening. Chris, a Secondary School Principal was, until recently, President of The NSW Secondary Prinipals Associaion….a practising professional. He comments occasionally on On Line Opinion.<\/p>\n

One is tempted to write\u00a0 a book from a Primary School perspectve,\u00a0called “GETTING STUPIDER AND STUPIDER”.<\/em> Chapter headings [frivolous, but meaningful] :- 1.Plumbers are running the Garage.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a02.\u00a0 ACARA\u00a0rhymes with\u00a0CASCARA ?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3. Frau Julia\u00a0sacks professional principals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4.\u00a0 How to teach toadies to pussy-foot.\u00a0\u00a0 5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Evaluate, assess, judge, test,\u00a0grade and appraise with ease.\u00a0\u00a0 6. What happened to my favourite subject ? A pupil’s perspective.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a07. How to stop pupils and parents from sharing evaluation\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 8. Short cuts to the 3Rs…Repetition, Repetition, Repetition. 9. How an educratic ‘expert’ can record schooling experience on a postage stamp in large font. 10. Sieg Heil, Frau Gillard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GILLARD’S\u00a0 WEB 28 JANUARY 2010 – A Day to Remember. Pupil-oriented schooling is neutered. This date too must be remembered as an important date in Australia’s education history.\u00a0 28 January, 2010. The curriculum-destructive\u00a0My School was published by ACARA. It is an historical occasion that \u00a0marks the demise of pupil-oriented schooling in Australia.\u00a0\u00a0The site\u00a0opened today as … Continue reading 28 Jan. ’10 – The Gillard web.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":41,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1213\/revisions\/2018"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}