NAPLAN results for students tested in Literacy and Numeracy around Australia in 2024 reveal alarming trends.  There are declines in overall literacy and numeracy outcomes for students in many areas. Testing involves all Australian students in Years 2, 5, 7 and 9.

Testing commenced in 2008 and has been part of the education calendar in every year since – excepting for 2021 when cancelled because of the Covid pandemic.

The lead article in today’s Australian newspaper. It is worth a read and some reflection.

Australia has sacrificed the teaching and understanding of basics, loading the curriculum with nonsense subjects, woke attitudes, and general crap.

Schools are failing. Educational fads prevail with commitment to critical teaching out the window.  (See Peta Credlin’s commentary on Sky on 14 August 2024)