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🧵 The Perrottet government is failing to meet the needs of the students who need the greatest levels of support…/2 
Our school counsellors are dedicated, committed professionals doing all they can to meet the increasingly complex needs of our students. Their case load is totally unrealistic, unmanageable and unacceptable…./3
To make matters worse, there are currently 106 vacant school counsellor positions across the state adding to an already over stretched and over stressed school counsellor service…./4
I’m a statistic. I’m one of the 50% of early career teachers that leave the profession within the first 5 years. The workload was too much for me. I got burnt out. It was all consuming. I wasn’t coping. My confidence was low. My capacity was shrinking. My competence was tested./1
I loved my school. I loved the staff. I loved the students. I loved the families and the community. I loved my time in the classroom. I loved being a teacher but the “teaching” part was less than 10% of the time I worked. I was overwhelmed and anxious /2
One evening I came home. I walked through the front door with my work bag slung over my shoulder and carrying a classroom tote tray full of my students books that needed marking. I was tired. In fact I was beyond tired. I was truly and utterly exhausted. /3
THREAD:NSW is spending $600mil less per year on public schools than intended under the original Gonski... Public schools are also denied access to a $1.9Bill Federal private school capital fund leading to this... Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College “one of the Best Bathrooms of '18”
Newington College. 8 tennis, 6 basketball & 3 volleyball courts. 17 cricket wickets, 3 rugby fields, a boat shed, fencing & table tennis facility, gym & Olympic pool. Newington Public: NO access to Fed Capital Grants. Demountables. #EverySchoolEveryChild
Concord High School teachers walked off the job earlier this year because they can’t cover classes. Last year, 2km down the road, Rosebank College got $2mill from Morrison for new classrooms. #EverySchoolEveryChild
And while the public schools of NSW are facing a large and growing shortage of teachers the NSW Government still feeds these schools $1.5 billion dollars in recurrent funding each year. #MoreThanThanks
Dom feeds them $500 million in capital funding. Morrison chips in $1.9 billion in capital.
Morrison also throws job keeper and special deals at them just for sport.
Cool story, let’s put it in perspective and peel off some of the spin and neglect. Thread 🧵 👇🏼 #MoreThanThanks
The NSW government also pledged half a billion dollars in capital funding to the privates as part of a 2019 election promise.
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The federal government also chips in $1.9 billion in capital funding for rich private schools to build art, drama and music facilities.
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The government has announced that it will maintain the very salary cap that has caused the decline in teacher salaries relative to other degreed professions which, along with crippling workloads, has created a teacher shortage. ❌❌❌
#GallopInquiry
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#GallopInquiry
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The #GallopInquiry warned, the government’s position on public sector wages “would undermine the standing and attractiveness of the teaching profession and be unjust given the evidence of change, intensification of work, and the value of the profession"
The #GallopInquiry warned, "without a significant increase in salaries, the State Government will not be able to address the significant shortage of teachers in NSW or recruit the additional ones to meet rising enrolments.”
