"Setting-the-world-to-rights" session today. We got close. (Sorry everyone, I know you'll be disappointed that we didn't make it!) Also, forgot to set a date for the next session. Now wonder what will happen if no one remembers to do this ever again. ? Any answers? Anyone?
We did figure out that politics has no place in education (sorry politicians, I guess this may come as a bit of a shock to you.) To be able to have a useful part in education, first a person would need to spend a few weeks in a classroom (no, many classrooms, reading with groups of children, talking to them about their counting, art, ideas, lost shoes, no food, "they're mean to me", sticker charts and the rest), listen to what people (teachers (yes teachers are people (and often parents) too)) say and be prepared to change your mind. And say "ok I'm wrong."
If you want the above in plain language, then National Standards is 19th Century thinking in the 21st century.
The education minister has set a higher arbitrary standard for the country. Fine, but it is based on what her government want for the economy since 2008, not on what 5 thousand years of educators have learnt about children and the learning of children.
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