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澳洲教育工会下周一将投票让它的成员退出5月份进行的NAPLN考试,因为它反对联邦政府的MySchool网站公布学校的成绩。
NSW政府将被迫花费$6.6 million来雇佣8300名独立考官来监督考试
Testy teachers failing children
MILITANT teachers' unions are set to ban next month's national tests, costing NSW taxpayers $6.6 million to hire 8300 independent supervisors.
The Australian Education Union on Monday will vote to pull its members out of the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy that is at the heart of the My School website. The union objects to results comparing school performance being published.
The decision will throw more than 2000 primary and secondary Government schools into chaos as qualified replacements from outside the teachers' union have to be found to supervise the tests for children in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9.
Education bosses will have just one month to reorganise the management of the tests, due to be held from May 11 to May 13, and put the outside supervisors through working with children background checks.
The AEU, which does not oppose the NAPLAN tests, is trying to stop the publication of school performance league tables claiming they have "profound negative consequences for students, teachers and parents".
Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard has refused to remove results data from the Government's My School website saying she will not "bow to threats from the union".
NSW Education Minister Verity Firth said yesterday the Government would ask the Industrial Relations Commission to order the union to lift the ban.
"The public should not have to foot the bill to obtain information that belongs to the parents and students of NSW," Ms Firth said.
"NAPLAN data is used on the My School website and its popularity proves how hungry parents are for this information.
"Banning this year's test would also mean missing out on the complete picture for NSW schools when the website is updated with this year's results.
"I don't believe most teachers support the ban and I strongly encourage them not to take part."
In NSW 232,384 students are scheduled to do the NAPLAN tests. This breaks down to 60,725 in Year 3, 61,278 in Year 5, 54,134 in Year 7 and 56,247 in Year 9.
Each outside supervisor brought in, expected to include HSC markers and retired educators, would need to be paid for 23 hours work, including training.
Parent and principal groups are not opposing NAPLAN and teachers at independent and Catholic schools will not boycott the tests.
The tests this year are the most critical yet because the results will allow educators to compare the scores of students in a particular age group with previous years and chart their progress.
A petition and campaign material against league tables is circulating in public schools around NSW and teachers have been urged by the union to solicit support from parents.
One flyer obtained by The Daily Telegraph says: "Those schools which do not achieve high scores and are dubbed as failing are often in the most disadvantaged areas.
"It does immense damage to the confidence and self-esteem of the students and makes teaching and learning more difficult."
At a meeting in January, the AEU voted to boycott NAPLAN if the Federal Government failed to stop publication of league tables.
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