Premier Gladys Berejiklian wants students to resume learning under a roster system, but principals have slammed the idea as confusing and unrealistic
Premier Gladys Berejiklian's plan for a part-time schooling roster is unrealistic, principals warn, describing it as a mammoth logistical exercise that will confuse parents and be impossible to implement.
"It's not practical at all, on so many levels," he said. "How do we determine which students are attending on any given day? If you've got two children - and the reason we're wanting kids to come back to school is to enable you to work - but they're not going to school on the same day, you're going to send them both anyway. I don't think it eases parental confusion at all.
While private schools were not required to follow the government's plan, Ms Skerman hoped it would apply across the board, so non-government schools were not left in the position where they had to draw up their own rules.But some already have their own strategy.
Kambala principal Shane Hogan did not think Ms Berejiklian's proposal was practical. "A real solution to me would be to get year 12 back to the classroom, and the infants back to the classroom," he said.
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