Comments on: Education Revolution: A complete 360

By: How do you Sleep while your Butts are Burning? | Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:49:25 +0000

[...] keen to fight Garrett’s corner as a minister in the Labor government. I’m the Voter who Cannot Love*, after all. He, like Julia, has broken my heart over environmental and Arts policies. No, I [...]

By: David

David — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:14:32 +0000

How will we educate our kids when education policy is left to politicians?
Here in the NT we are facing the anhialation of indigenous languages brought about by uninformed policy and the knee jerk reaction of a politician on the run. They are all too proud to acknowledge their mistakes and full of brovado and BS… In a democracy supposedly relyant on informed decision making, it defies logic that the best we can do at election time is vote in yet another bloody politician.
When I last entered the polling booth I informed the staff that I wanted my name marked off the role but I refuse to vote for any of the candidates on offer… I was informed that I must place a vote even if it’s just a blank piece of paper. I wrote ‘NONE OF THE ABOVE!’
Unfortunately it didn’t work since one of them was voted in… Next time I might make up my own How to vote cards advising others to vote for None of the Above. You never know we might get lucky.

By: among things non-parents shouldn’t comment on « a shiny new coin

among things non-parents shouldn’t comment on « a shiny new coin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:21:04 +0000

[...] Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony: Trevor Cobbold in his article, The Free market and the Social divide in Education(PDF), points out that the My School website is a continuation of the commodification of education which features the establishment of “quasi-markets” in schools. [...]

By: Post 100: Data Privacy Day is January 28, 2010! « Neil's second decade

Post 100: Data Privacy Day is January 28, 2010! « Neil's second decade — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:09:47 +0000

[...] The Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony has posted a strong critique. “OK, now my heart is thoroughly broken and trampled on. I’ve [...]

By: Ann ODyne

Ann ODyne — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:44:49 +0000

another great post dear BOACIB.

By: Rayedish

Rayedish — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:03:04 +0000

She’s a heart breaker that Julia. The whole education revolution is just positively disheartening, full as it is of bad ideas that have achieved little in other countries – league tables, performance-based pay, etc – in short schools aren’t businesses and should not be run as if they were.