Infomatics Parents are supposed to "measure" their local schools by?
The word is - be careful. It's not clear that they are valid - that they measure what they
purport to "measure" about a school community in context.
One taster from an SMH Article by Paul Sheehan from Mon April 9th:
"A friend of mine, a retired school principal, wrote to me after reading a recent column about our
stratifying school system:
From my own experience of years in the private system and my 40 years in the public system, including 20 years as a high school principal, the real X-factor which is rarely prominently discussed - the elephant in the room - is not mainly money or autonomy. It is parents.
Whilst private schools and selective schools can separate their students from the undisciplined, the unmotivated, the dysfunctional, the irresponsible, the handicapped - the kids whose parents can't or won't exercise any control on them - we will continue to have a class system in our schools.
'Until classroom teachers and state school executives have the power to set and enforce codes of conduct, discipline and application comparable to the powers taken for granted in private schools we will continue to have one system for the bright, ambitious and/or wealthy and one for the rest.''
Read more:
Sydney Morning Herald online - full text
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