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Did your child start school this year?
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What are your experiences? Did you find their behaviour was different leading up to the first day of school and has it changed since? What advice would you have for parents going through this emotion…
Started this discussion. Last reply by Anita Bower Feb 6.
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I agree with you Ray. It is a major oversight that the school profiles do not include the percentage of students form a non-English speaking background. Since the NAPLAN tests are very culturally bia…
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Why isn't becoming a teacher more scrutinised and higher paid
So who do you believe is holding doctors, lawyers and engineers accountable? I find it interesting Iain that you are happy to go with the hope technique when it comes to your children's education! Y…
Replied Jan 28
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My daughter started school on the 1st of feb this year, It was also her 5th birthday that day, so I was a little bit nervous how things would go that morning. She has been excited for weeks to go to school, but she was also wondering if she would st…
Gee Michelle, Sorry to hear. I can only imagine and feel your pain. I hope it all gets sorted out soon for your daughter. I don't know if there is a 'Bullying' group on here that others maybe able to offer you support and advice. Which may help.
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My experiences with my daughter going to school has been a nightmare she has been at high school for 5days now with in theses 4days of the five she has been verbally abused and physically abused a great way to start her first year in high school but…
I found both my children rspoded differently, I think age and gender play a big part. We talked up big school for weeks and what a big boy my son was, after a week or so when he realised this wasn't a big play day with a special uniform and school s…
I have had three children go through the primary school and high school systems. Both my girls are out in good careers, and my son just went into the upper campus of high school, so I am not the new mum first child first day senario. But I do rememb…
What are your experiences? Did you find their behaviour was different leading up to the first day of school and has it changed since? What advice would you have for parents going through this emotional period? I would love to hear your thoughts and…
I agree with you Ray. It is a major oversight that the school profiles do not include the percentage of students form a non-English speaking background. Since the NAPLAN tests are very culturally biased, schools with high numbers of NESB students wi…
So who do you believe is holding doctors, lawyers and engineers accountable?
I find it interesting Iain that you are happy to go with the hope technique when it comes to your children's education! You hope that the right people get the "calling" to…
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I have seen the opposite to this happen. It is quite common in the area that I teach for private schools to encourage parents to move their child with a disability or special needs to a public school where they have "more resources" to support them.…
It certainly would be nice to see more information about schools included such as their programs for students with disabilities and the number of students from non-English speaking backgrounds, as well as the inclusion of classes for gifted students…
Lindy, well argued. I am sure there are many who agree with you.
Sadly, for reasons I cannot fathom, there are people who just don't get understand how this system can ghettoise our education institutions by causing the drifts you identify . This h…
We (our family) arrived here from overseas a little over a year ago. We come from a country where this kind of information is available and considered very useful by the parents and schools alike. Once here, we visited probably about 10 schools, tal…
Lindy,
I'm trying to get into your logic but I'll need some help. If you will never allow stats to influence your decision between one school or another, which other criteria will you use?
I can easily agree with the fact that "The most dynamic an…
Thanks for that link. We have slumped a little but not as much as the USA or UK.
Once again these are very simple statistics given completely out of context and people can draw a variety of conclusions from them. Without understanding all of the co…
I have a number of concerns about the publishing of school league tables. I firmly believe that no set of statistics can take into account all of the complex social issues surrounding education and student achievement, and therefore the numbers wil…
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