Quokka

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  • QuokkaAtoAustralia@aussie.zone*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 months ago

    Scrap the subsidies entirely. They’re harmful and fucking over the industry.

    Stop subsiding private businesses who rate hike each year yet pass none of it into the resources, building, children, or educators.

    And finally pay educators better, you want high quality education? You’re not getting it when your educators rarely stay more than a year into the industry and lack all deep long term institutional knowledge.

    Not to mention we’re deeply understaffed as is, and you want to put more children in when we cannot meet the demand already existing, and no a free fucking tafe course is not getting educators into the industry.

    This is policy made by people who don’t step foot in the class and have zero idea of the industry.







  • Behaviourism (reward/punish to influence behaviour) was revolutionary 100 years ago, it’s pretty outdated by today’s educational paedagogy.

    You might get a few short term “wins”, but all you’re doing long term is teaching them to focus on the reward. They’re not learning an intrinsic value to the actions, and as such will be less likely to follow through once you’re not in the picture to punish/reward (e.g. at school, as teenagers doing teenager things, etc)