The Greens say the Federal Government\u2019s plan to fast-track interns into classrooms would further entrench education inequality while doing very little to solve the teacher shortage crisis in our public schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson on schools, Senator Penny Allman-Payne said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA decades-long bipartisan commitment to the privatisation of education has driven thousands of passionate, experienced teachers out of the public school system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInstead of trying to encourage these skilled educators back into the classroom the government is proposing to fast-track non-teachers into schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNot only will this place additional burden on current teachers to support these unprepared trainees, it will lower the overall quality of education in the public system, further entrenching the already-yawning gap between the richest and poorest students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere are no shortcuts to saving public education in Australia. The government should be encouraging good teachers back into the classroom by properly funding public education. That means better salaries, lower student-teacher ratios and world-class equipment and infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn a speech today, Education Minister Jason Clare said, \u2018I don\u2019t want us to be a country where your chances in life depend on who your parents are.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI couldn\u2019t agree more. But if Minister Clare\u2019s solution to the crisis in public education is filling classrooms with unprepared teachers and increasing workloads then he\u2019s doing nothing to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens say the Federal Government\u2019s plan to fast-track interns into classrooms would further entrench education inequality while doing very little to solve the teacher shortage crisis in our public schools. Greens spokesperson on schools, Senator Penny Allman-Payne said: \u201cA decades-long bipartisan commitment to the privatisation of education has driven thousands of passionate, experienced teachers … Continue reading “UNPREPARED TEACHERS NO SOLUTION TO SHORTAGE CRISIS”<\/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-19504","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\/19504","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=19504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19505,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504\/revisions\/19505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}