It's the same as that in New Zealand IIRC.
The problem is that parents have whined and moaned so much and invaded the school system that the teachers no longer have any real power to make the students work.
I feel sorry for the older teachers. My history teacher had an MA from Cambridge and was one of the brightest people I'd ever met. A pity he was surrounded by hordes of young B.Ed dullards who couldn't even spell properly.
My father, who never finished high school, was employed in the last few years of his life by my high school as a music teacher. He couldn't believe the ignorance in the staff room. He reckoned that only 3 teachers out of about 40 were up to the standard he'd had at a dirt poor British state school in the early 50s.
The problem is that parents have whined and moaned so much and invaded the school system that the teachers no longer have any real power to make the students work.
I feel sorry for the older teachers. My history teacher had an MA from Cambridge and was one of the brightest people I'd ever met. A pity he was surrounded by hordes of young B.Ed dullards who couldn't even spell properly.
My father, who never finished high school, was employed in the last few years of his life by my high school as a music teacher. He couldn't believe the ignorance in the staff room. He reckoned that only 3 teachers out of about 40 were up to the standard he'd had at a dirt poor British state school in the early 50s.
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