Education

I have this suspicion that teachers are biased towards making their own jobs easier and in doing so, educational outcomes are compromised.

And then the government wades in to create incentives for teachers to create better outcomes. But all they achieve is a high level of planning and reporting that removes the teachers’ attention even further from teaching.

My sister in law is a teacher in a country region. The head office for the 26 schools in the region has one hundred employees. Enough salaries to populate 4 more schools. And apparently they are all involved in planning and reporting to government.

And the odd thing is that most academics agree that high school graduate are, year by year, slipping backwards in quality.

Eventually it will be time to go back to the beginning.