Category: Ejakashun
Regular readers will know that I often specifically address Jack in suggested reading. Jack as it happens is a long retired educator and educator of educators. Having spent most of his working life in the ed biz, he topped it off with a gig as a haberdasher's assistant. I'm not sure which career he found more fulfilling. Jack wrote this particular note in his head some time ago and we now publish it on TramTown. We hope he will write many more of these.
OZ EDUCATION
When new-age teachers rejected all forms of student assessment they ushered in the egalitarian or "Oz" education era. Remembering how the Wizard gave the scarecrow a diploma to make him feel he had a brain, our teachers have adopted an educational philosophy that all kids should reach year 12 and graduate with equal "Oz" diplomas.
What if this egalitarian mania was to be exploited by a sinister government? They could achieve great savings by amalgamating the Registry of Births with the Education Ministry. When each child is born the new Department would issue a combined birth-academic diploma. Grade-by-grade, teachers would be seconded — given high sounding titles — to work at the Registry writing year-by-year reports to be attached to the birth certificate. Perhaps a higher pay could help avoid union action. After 12 years all teachers would be officers at "The Registry".
Classrooms would be empty with school grounds sub-divided. Kids could hang around looking unkempt like scarecrows but with excellent certificates. Gradually the Registry Officers could be replaced by computers. Our country would be cleansed of class snobbery and take its place on an equal footing with the most ignorant of third world nations.
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