I’ve sat with hundreds of families nervously weighing this decision. And there’s something those parents deserve to know that isn’t in the brochures they’re clutching.
Matt Canavan and Angus Taylor want more male teachers in schools. But they have chosen the single most effective way of ensuring we won’t get them.
A generation of young men are being drawn toward voices that promise power, certainty and identity. Schools can’t keep looking the other way.
For the parents whose trust has been shattered and the teachers who will bear the shame, the sentence for this case can only feel inadequate.
It wasn’t surprising to discover this week our teachers are now ranked as the world’s third most stressed among OECD countries. That’s up from a ranking of 15th in 2018.
When I worked as a school principal, literally nothing in the job robbed me of more sleep than when I had to suspend students.
The fundamental premise of therapy-based approaches in primary schools is that our kids are broken. All of them. And they’re not.
In kicking the can of responsibility for the Yarra Valley Grammar students who ranked their female classmates to another school, parents are missing the point.
There is a grave danger when an overprivileged individual leverages the network of an exclusive school to rise effortlessly into a senior position.
Teachers are at the centre of a plan to introduce laws that prevent workers being contacted out of office hours. But are we trying to solve the wrong problem?
