Yep, realised that after, went to find the figures but got distracted as I got a phone call from Council.
My rezoning has been approved. 35 lot subdivision is the next step
nice - that's a decent project
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Yep, realised that after, went to find the figures but got distracted as I got a phone call from Council.
My rezoning has been approved. 35 lot subdivision is the next step
i have no idea about your sons primary school but overall $300m MORE is being spent on education this year Vs last. MORE, not less.
funding may have been cut to SOME schools but funding overall has increased not decreased.
I am stunned as a result of recently learning that it is standard practice in public schools to appoint a full time teacher's aid to a particular child that suffers from say autism. When did that start? I'm all for inclusions etc but seriously, what is the full costing on a teacher's aid's salary... would have to be $100k? There seems to be general indignation that everyone who wants this resource can't have it. When I refer to reality checks and cost cutting this is exactly what I am referring to
every man and his dog wants to be a teacher's aid these days - the qualifications are low, the hours good because they fit into school times and responsibility low. hence the howls when it is proposed to cull them en masse.
I am stunned as a result of recently learning that it is standard practice in public schools to appoint a full time teacher's aid to a particular child that suffers from say autism. When did that start? I'm all for inclusions etc but seriously, what is the full costing on a teacher's aid's salary... would have to be $100k? There seems to be general indignation that everyone who wants this resource can't have it. When I refer to reality checks and cost cutting this is exactly what I am referring to
every man and his dog wants to be a teacher's aid these days - the qualifications are low, the hours good because they fit into school times and responsibility low. hence the howls when it is proposed to cull them en masse.
Are you actively involved in your P&C?
How much fundraising does your P&C do?
What is it going to do to replace the lost funding?
I know that our P&C puts smart boards, air-cond etc in every new classroom. It has paid for rainwater tanks/solar power, cricket nets, covered walkways & paving between classrooms etc.
There is no point whingeing about free education if you are not willing to contribute towards it.
I was still pretty new to voting at the time of the state election so I got advice from my parents who were Liberal supporters, so I ended up voting for liberals. I won't be ever again.
Tim, I think you might be too young to know much about schools if you have only been eligible to vote for a few years. You mustn't know much about public transport either. It takes 3o minutes to get the bus from the school I work at to my home. It is 3.5 kilometres, but the bus goes round through the suburban streets rather than straight down the main road.
I'm sorry that you are upset about this. Now which school will your potential future children attend? My school has almost 1200 students and then we will get the year 7s in 2015. Each of our three local primary schools have enrolments around 1200 too. That's around 600 kids in year 7 in one community. We have two private schools as well. What does the census say about potential population growth in your suburb? Perhaps its birth rate is decreasing and the suburb doesn't really have a demand for a school in the future. I really don't know the answer to this, but that is the kind of reason why schools tend to close.
I took all the things you mentioned into consideration when I said 30 mins. My point is that a 30 minute bus trip is rubbish compared with the 50m walk to the current school. I did just work out the exact distance to the nearest school, it's 6.5km now. Slightly more than 50m. And if what you say is true, that a 3.5km bus trip takes you 30 mins, then that makes the school around about an hours bus trip away for the school bus. But that's pretty redundant anyway as some parents at the school were saying that bus routes in our suburb have recently been cut back and there are now no buses that will take the kids to that school anyway. Also the education minister said he thinks it's acceptable to close down schools even if it means the children need to travel an extra 20kms to their new school. So I guess 6.5kms isn't as bad as it could be.
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If you are 50m from Nyanda High School, then enrol your child in Sunnybank High School. The railway station is almost beside Nyanda, and Sunnybank High is about a 5 minute walk from Sunnybank station which in turn is about 10 minutes by train from Nyanda (3 stations up the line).
Total trip around 20 minutes.
Marg