🧵 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

I. Just. Can't! Irony is dead.

@MathiasCormann has discovered inequality in education.

“Equality of opportunity is a key ingredient for a strong and cohesive democratic society."

Yet, .../2 @MathiasCormann , until 2020, was a member of a government that sought, and continues to seek, the destruction of needs-based school funding denying public schools the minimum funding they need to give every child their best chance in education and life.
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Naming and shaming schools - a policy failure. ⁦⁦@SOSAust⁩

Another one for the we-told-you-so-file.

Here’s a novel idea.

Fund every school at its minimum Schooling Resource Standard.

#EverySchoolEveryChild Courtesy of the Berejiklian and Morrison Govts public schools in 2023 will be at 92 per cent of the SRS -the minimum level of resourcing required to educate all students to a high level, with no path in sight to get to 100% of the SRS. Private schools will be at 106% of the SRS.

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

smh.com.au/politics/nsw/n… 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"

#COVID19au Yesterday Federation sought a response to a series of contradictory statements including: 👇🏻 • the need to observe social distancing protocols which are impossible to implement in classrooms, corridors and most school playgrounds;

#Covid_19australia
Teachers have been thrust onto the frontline of this crisis.

The Premier has failed to provide any reassurance for our public school teachers and principals. 👇🏻 The Premier has failed to issue clear and unequivocal advice in relation to school closures.

What we have now is a recipe for chaos.

#Covid_19australia
Teachers and principles are not dispensable.
An urgent meeting is being sought with the NSW minister.
Answers are needed 👇🏻 As of midday, yesterday, plans were being enacted to wind back school operations. Described as the UK model, schools were to remain open with appropriate levels of supervision for children of essential workers.

This is obscene. Meanwhile, the federal government will deliver $1.8billion in capital funding to private schools over the next decade – public schools get nothing 👇🏻 smh.com.au/education/an-a… At a state level, the Berijiklian Government gifted private schools $500 million as an election promise.