You can’t separate the teacher shortage crisis from what’s become known as ‘the funding wars’ in education. | OPINION by By Adam Voigt, CEO and former principal
of their careers and to assume it’s a rough 20 per cent level in most schools. It isn’t. The reality is that this percentage is far higher in the schools I speak of and far lower in schools that have a disproportionate level of funding and advantage – our private schools.
As a result, it might it be argued that the dearth of teachers in government schools, struggling daily with almost illegal student-teacher ratios just to get to 3.30pm, can be best solved by sending a few back from the schools who already often boast ratios of less than 10 students per teacher. The elephant in the room around what an authentic, multifaceted and effective solution to this crisis requires is the one thing that slips too regularly from our grasp. It’s bipartisanship.Until we can agree as a nation, that there’s more benefit in an equitable and adequately funded education system than there is in the political mileage it can provide a party, we’re pretty much doomed to window-dressing-level solutions that will ultimately lead us back to more summits and white papers.
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