Education

I’ll start listening to teachers on National Standards when they stop hiding criminals

by Whaleoil August 29, 2010

I’m over the teach­ers unions, The Teach­ers Coun­cil and teach­ers in gen­eral. They are against National Stan­dards for no other rea­son that it is the national party propos­ing it, they want huge pay increases because they were silent for Labour for nine years, and they through the Teach­ers Coun­cil and the reg­is­tra­tion board keep allowing […]

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Schools to have more control over budgets and staffing

by Whaleoil August 2, 2010

Oh wait I mis-read the arti­cle, it is Labor in Aus­tralia not Labour in New Zealand. SCHOOLS will get greater con­trol over their bud­gets, select­ing and employ­ing teach­ers and iden­ti­fy­ing fund­ing pri­or­i­ties, under a new Labor pol­icy. Julia Gillard, cam­paign­ing in the west­ern Syd­ney seat of Lind­say, announced the empow­er­ing local schools pro­gram, which she […]

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Guess Who Said This?

by Whaleoil July 30, 2010

The teach­ers union would hate this tory scum who chal­lenges their rigid views on account­abil­ity “All I’m ask­ing in return, as a pres­i­dent and as a par­ent, is a mea­sure of account­abil­ity. Surely we can agree that even as we applaud teach­ers for their hard work, we need to make sure they’re deliv­er­ing results in […]

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How did they know he was gay?

by Whaleoil July 21, 2010

A pres­ti­gious Chris­t­ian school’s Board of Trustees have been told to attend a human rights aware­ness course after sack­ing a net­ball coach because he was gay, the Christchurch Star has reported today. Mid­dle­ton Grange School also had to apol­o­gise to the 28-year-old and pay him a con­fi­den­tial repa­ra­tion sum. Yes­ter­day, the man broke his silence […]

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Teachers Council still protecting pedo Teachers

by Whaleoil July 8, 2010

The Teach­ers Coun­cil is still pro­tect­ing pedo teach­ers by keep­ing their details secret. A mar­ried teacher who sent love let­ters to a young stu­dent say­ing she was his “first true love” has been banned from teach­ing. The man, who has not been named, has been cen­sured for seri­ous mis­con­duct and had his reg­is­tra­tion can­celled by […]

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Turning the tables

by Whaleoil June 25, 2010

Last night was Miss Whaleoil’s choir recital. It was fan­tas­tic and of course the most beau­ti­ful girl in the choir was Miss Wha­le­oil. The singing was won­der­ful, that is until one school got up and sang a song about the myth of Global Warm­ing and all the things that we had to do to “save” […]

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How to rig surveys — Teachers Council

by Whaleoil June 17, 2010

The Teach­ers Coun­cil has reacted to pub­lic­ity sur­round­ing their pol­icy of pro­tect­ing dodgy teach­ers by sup­press­ing their names, even when their names aren’t sup­pressed by courts. This is of course just a cozy arrange­ment from the estab­lish­ment to keep dodgy teach­ers from hav­ing to face real scrutiny. (copy of email) Their reac­tion has been to […]

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A Starter for 10

by Whaleoil June 2, 2010

One of my loyal fans is in Year 10 (4th form). He has asked if I can help trans­late Pinko Teacher for him because….well you’ll see…he is baf­fled by the assign­ment. It is a Social Stud­ies assign­ment. Topic: Sus­tain­abil­ity – Min­ing Assess­ment Cri­te­ria: Excel­lence: Iden­ti­fies an envi­ron­men­tal issue and records the evo­lu­tion of an action […]

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Get the Axe out Anne and earn that nickname

by Whaleoil May 4, 2010

“This is very dif­fer­ent to, and is poten­tially a counter to, any pro­posal to move towards per­for­mance pay.” Any skills-based pay sys­tem would have to be objec­tive, fair and rig­or­ous and not based on stu­dent results, the draft claim said. “It must not lead to com­pe­ti­tion amongst teach­ers.” Right. So these bludgers want to hide the inept […]

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