Broken wheel

IT IS very disappointing – and worrying – that the State Government is keeping its policy aim of restricting promotion only to teachers who can ensure “acceptable levels of academic improvement” in their students.
This doctrinaire and divisive approach has been tried and discredited in many places.
Mostly it persists as a panacea among people with limited understanding of the total education process.
In the interests of brevity one points to just one telling example: there are dedicated and hardworking teachers whose magnificent achievement is to enthuse students to keep on who would otherwise leave school prematurely.
It is one thing to reinvent the wheel. It is another to bring back a broken wheel.
Peter Wigney,
Pakenham.