{"id":19340,"date":"2022-11-29T20:56:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=19340"},"modified":"2022-11-29T20:56:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:56:32","slug":"school-disruption-inquiry-puts-target-on-teachers-and-students-backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/school-disruption-inquiry-puts-target-on-teachers-and-students-backs\/","title":{"rendered":"SCHOOL DISRUPTION INQUIRY PUTS TARGET ON TEACHERS\u2019 AND STUDENTS\u2019 BACKS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Greens say a Senate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.greens.org.au\/t\/y-i-ndrtyjk-l-y\/\">inquiry into school disruption<\/a>, initiated by the Liberals and backed by Labor, risks being used as a platform to attack overworked teachers and First Nations, disabled and neurodiverse students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greens spokesperson on schools, Senator Penny Allman-Payne said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor and the Coalition today voted to set up an inquiry into school disruption. While disruption and lack of student engagement in Australian classrooms is a complex phenomenon worth exploring in its proper context, the inquiry&#8217;s terms of reference are deeply concerning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInstead of seeking to investigate the causes of disruption and student disengagement without prejudice, the terms of reference are loaded with assumptions and value judgements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI hope I&#8217;m wrong but I&#8217;m really worried that this inquiry will be used as a cudgel against overworked teachers, struggling parents and disadvantaged kids. I&#8217;m especially concerned that it&#8217;s going to provide a forum to target First Nations, disabled and neurodiverse students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPublic school teachers, parents and carers have been telling us for years that their schools are understaffed and under-resourced and that this is worsening student outcomes and entrenching inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPerhaps the Senate could spend some more time inquiring into that rather than giving a soapbox to anti-public school culture warriors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens say a Senate&nbsp;inquiry into school disruption, initiated by the Liberals and backed by Labor, risks being used as a platform to attack overworked teachers and First Nations, disabled and neurodiverse students. Greens spokesperson on schools, Senator Penny Allman-Payne said: \u201cLabor and the Coalition today voted to set up an inquiry into school disruption. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/school-disruption-inquiry-puts-target-on-teachers-and-students-backs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SCHOOL DISRUPTION INQUIRY PUTS TARGET ON TEACHERS\u2019 AND STUDENTS\u2019 BACKS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19341,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19340\/revisions\/19341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}