I find the most alarming facts about a large number of aspiring primary school teachers failing numeracy and literacy tests to be that these aspiring teachers had 12 years of Queensland education and then three or four years of university courses before attempting the test.
This is a damning indictment of all levels of Queensland education. Of course, no one will be held responsible. Not the parade of ministers who governed over the dumbing down of Queensland Education, nor the bureaucrats who mandated “touch-feely” assessments that have already been tried and rejected elsewhere.
We need an inquiry into these non-teaching bureaucrats who have led us into this educational morass.