Is government control of the education system a desirable "reform"

[poddster]

The question is, should government influence our education systen?

When governmet says it wants the same opertunities for every child is it really saying that it wants uniformity in education , such as what is being taught and how it is being taught.?

Is it better to have diversity in education as to what and how kids are educated?

[cherry*135]

Diatribe in your opinion only, not anyone elses.

[cherry*135]

Education is terrible, especially English, maths and science. Teaching them is akin to brainwashing.

Learning to read and write (and spell too, hopefully) must be harmful too.

[poddster]

See what i mean about being brainwashed ? 🙂

Perfect example

[poddster]

Kazza you may be able to put words in the mouths of others in your clan but you have no hopne of doing that to me :0

bummer huh ?

[cherry*135]

See what i mean about being brainwashed ? 🙂

Perfect example

No, explain what you mean.

[poddster]

Oh dear I made a typo

[*crikey*mate*]

Give some examples then... of how these children are brainwashed by getting an education in Aust and what effect does it have on them when they leave school. .. after completing primary and seconday school and continuing on to Tafe or Uni and getting a good,  is getting well paying job a BAD thing?

If you have children OP, did they get a bad education instead of a best one?

I've got one example off the top of my head...

According to "the experts" my kid would receive the best education in the Public System by being placed in a SEU and being taught some life skills such as learning how to tie his shoe laces so that one day he may be able to live in semi assisted living.

It was an SEU where they catered to the needs of many different types of diabilities from S&L, hearing impaired ASD, II etc...

I had to fight the experts to keep him out of that system...

He finished Grade 12 last year in a main stream school, still can't tie his own shoe laces, but meh, we just got him ones without laces....

Yep, the suits in their comfy offices who had no idea about what my kid was capable of, tried to convince me that my kid was going to get "the best education possible"

[just_me_karen]

That's correct, A3, you can see how damaging it can be to learn such things. Every Australian wants to have the intellect and rational thinking skills of the OP 🙂

another question, plodz. What surveillance system do you recommend to keep government people away from my bunker school? I don't want those brainwashers near my kids 😞

[cherry*135]

OP instead of just criticising the current system, what do you propose instead? (with details).

[sniper_patrol]

I think there is a village out there somewhere void of it's idiot.