Mojo ♻️Australia is marching headlong into the American trap. Private schools are well funded fortresses of privilege, producing the “winners,” while public schools are left to carry the load with fewer resources, higher needs, and falling results. It’s a system that dumbifies the general population while propping up a narrow elite. If we keep going down this path, we’ll soon need to import our top professionals (just like the USA) because we’ll be too stupid to grow our own.
Now comes the federal government’s grand solution: the Teaching and Learning Commission, a new mega-agency to merge four education bodies into one. It’s being sold as the fix for falling Year 12 completion rates, declining literacy and numeracy, and a public system on life support. Targets are ambitious, lift completions, raise NAPLAN results, cut the literacy/numeracy gap.
But will this actually solve the problem ? Or just centralise power, add bureaucracy, and give ministers more distance from the classroom? Unless inequality is tackled headon and public schools properly funded and supported, no shiny new commission will save us. We can’t keep outsourcing education to private schools and expecting public education to limp along.
Australia doesn’t need another bureaucratic restructure. We need equity, investment, and faith in teachers. Otherwise, we’ll just become a nation of imported smarts and local mediocrity.
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