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What money state schools do get is poorly used due to a bureaucratic debacle of a tendering and pre-registration system that is in place. All major works are undertaken by a hand full of contractors who are pre-registered and all flat out.
Yep just look at NSW recent tenders for fencing and fitting of A/C's systems a small handfull to do the whole states schools (ok Sydney's anyway).
Therefore you get nothing for your money. We recently spent $90k on refurbishing an undercover area and if you saw it you would ask what we had done. Concreting that is not level, water pools in the middle, low MPA that dusted and required sealing with a concrete paint afterwards. I had words with the department supervisor and said that I wanted to see the specifications as there was no way these clowns should be paid and the whole lot should be ripped up at their cost – nothing was done.
Wonder who's in who's pocket there.
We are currently having shade shelters erected – two 6x3 gabled patios side by side. They have been working on them for five weeks now – I kid you not! These should have gone up in three days. What they have put up is all on the and nowhere near level.
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:oo::oo: Attitude is "Hey its a gov contract we can make $$$ for doing little and take as long as we like, recently a LCC put in doz new trees around a park play area across the road, All the equip they needed trees quite mature, a doz workers and 3 weekends.
The other side of the socio economic coin is the environment. When students are told that they are worthless little c###s at home by no hoper parents it is no wonder they come to school with a bad attitude and swear at the teachers – it is all that they know.
This comes from even North Shore as well parents and teachers, by parents but maybe not in words. Many get more love from nannies, or are shoved off to boarding schools out of parents way so the parents can get on with their lives as they want. The highest paid child minding service for high flying execs politicians gov officials. I have met kids that only used to see parents for an hour when they flew into Syd airport or back out nanny used to take them or find their own way there. One girls private school there were more girls dropped off by nannies than parents, it was amazing to see the girls who were brought by parents hug them quick and dump n run, while those with nannies didn't want to leave them the nannies stayed till I drove away.
This is very apparent after holidays when you notice the difference that spending seven days a week with mum or dad makes to a child, all the good work the teacher did in the previous term is straight out the window.
Are these kids spending that time with mum & dad??? Socio dictates they must work heaven help us if business had that many staff off during these times. They only get 4 weeks holiday a year to devide up to 3 months their kids get off. This means that kids are looking after themselves, parenst have to trust their kids during this time educate them for every possibility and allow them to grow and learn.
For example I have a 10 year old in my class who can not read or write – even his own name will be spelt wrong 4 out of 5 times. His mum tells me she does not care if he can’t read or write. Get real, there are no jobs anywhere anymore for illiterate people, you can’t even dig holes without being able to read a safety manual and pass a blue card test.
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Years ago (late 60's early 70's) teachers were dragged from all walks of life put through a rush course and stood in front of school kids a teacher shortage. Trades grab for apprentices due to low costs they demand these kids "know it all" .After all they have spent years sitting around doing nothing, being taught everything, government funding has been handed, out teachers pay packets have been increased, they are being kept up to date with modern technology.
This mum may have a life that has been worthless, itmay have been instilled in her from an early age or she mayhave come fromthe best of families and knows that education didn't do anything for her that family ties can do much better.
</v:shape></o:lock>I have six so called pointy end kids in my class so realistically what can I do to help this kid if his mum won’t support me? Show the kid you care like you are doing with the project :2tsup::2tsup: it will hit home he is the one who might want to change his destiny. One small step!!! But huge in my eyes. LOML did a TAFE course many moons ago for Adult Litracy to teach adults many her won age (30's) at the time and just as many older, she gave it up as a joke when a number of her students were cab drivers, and had been for years, no wonder they couldn't use a street directory.
About the same time I was spraying a Mini for a parent of a local well off business family who's son was in Duntroon the restration was a gift for passing all his exams and becoming an Officer and Engineer. Sadly he was involved in an investigation that rocked his parents world. He had some how gone through his whole school years passing exams, passed entrance exams to Duntroon and passed all exams there until out on manouvers. He was handed a sealed envelope with FYEO security and ripped it open and handed it to a subordinate and asked him to read it so he could check the maps cordinates. An observing oficer stopped this and handed it back to him and said you must do this yourself to which they found he couldn't read he was dyslexic:o. He had devised all his school years how to learn by rote having other class mates read to him, goodness knows how he got through exam papers.
ADFA had to discharge him sat him through test after test which he passed thinking he had cheated he had stored it all in memory. I believe they helped him and continued his employment in their engineering side.
You can’t give kids one on one time because as soon as you do three others start playing up and realistically there are no consequences. Yep and its usually the teaher shwo give their time most to pointy heads that the other kids see as favouritism so they then begin to play up.
The don’t care attitude of these kids is deeply engrained and in the most part is not just a front. They truly do not care if they miss out on a reward and believe that they should be given everything, it is their right. Who is to blame – the PARENTS!
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The other end of the scale is not much better. I have a friend who teaches at one of the top private girl’s schools. The “I don’t have to do that” attitude of these kids is just as bad. Many have never had to do a thing for themselves and expect the same at school. These kids grow up knowing that no matter what they do mummy or daddy will fix it for them and they are never wrong, they are mummies little angels.
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There is a middle ground and the kids in those schools are generally all pretty level headed and respectful. 70% of the kids in my school fit in there and I will give those kids everything. What they put up with on a daily basis from the other 30% is disgusting to say the least, but the governments stance on inclusive schooling and the lack of real consequences means that as a teacher all you can do is minimize the impact the 30% have on the rest of the students – grin and bare it!
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