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Schools Matter: Australian Teachers Vote Unanimously to Boycott Test and Punish Plan

Schools Matter: Australian Teachers Vote Unanimously to Boycott Test and Punish Plan

Australian Teachers Vote Unanimously to Boycott Test and Punish Plan

Here is a lesson in applied professional ethics that the prosti-suits who run the NEA and AFT need to learn from:
Teachers have voted unanimously for a national ban on national literacy and numeracy tests in public schools in protest against the federal government's My School website.
The Australian Education Union federal executive said today that teachers would not supervise the national tests scheduled for next month unless the federal government addressed teacher concerns about use of the data on the website.
The union's federal president, Angelo Gavrielatos, said teachers would not administer the tests