League Tables
My apologies to people who are unable to see.
We call that blindness.
I used the word in my last poem, with scant disregard for people who are unable to see.
It is politicians who are the three wise monkeys here...
See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.
The politicians have no problem
sending the academic status of the students
to the journalists of the press,
who have no problem using
their right to the freedom of the press.
The people will have no problem making
their own assumptions about the information
they find presented to them.
The students themselves have no say in the matter...
who looks after their interests????
politicians?
journalists?
the public?
Lawyers?
No, it is teachers, educators.
Trained, experienced, educated in the ways of children. People who understand the delicate nature of students and the learning they undertake.
Ignore the teachers at your peril.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
So why is the New Zealand education system adopting league tables based on "The Nation Standards" in the same week that the USA is broadening it's curriculum and assessing on "more than one test"?
New Zealand gets it wrong again.
This is bad for students education and teachers...and parents, grandparents, and wider society...even bad for the people who think they are doing "the right thing"
Tell all of your colleagues.
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