Red Tape for Teachers.

The Federal Government's National Curriculum is set to be introduced across Australia at the beginning of 2011. Personally I am all for it. I have never understood why there are so many dissimilarities between the various States.

It is a nightmare for parents moving their children inter-state, and for the teachers trying to explain to them why their son/daughter has to repeat a year again, or go into a class where they are struggling to understand the Maths because they have missed a year of instruction. The anomalies are numerous. Hopefully the proposed National Curriculum will put pay to much of this.

Now, my question is this; If I am qualified to teach the Nat. Curr. in Western Australia, surely I am just as qualified to teach it in Victoria, New South Wales or the Northern Territory, so why do I have to go through all the rigmarole of having my qualifications ratified. I am not talking about Police Checks etc., as we all have to have them, no I am talking about having to go through the same process as teachers coming from overseas.

I have an Australian Teaching Degree, surely that should qualify me to teach anywhere in Australia, without all the red tape.

I do not understand.

Things I do not understand

• where all the money from the mining royalties has gone
• why Perth seems to stagnate while Melbourne seems to be exploding with vitality
• where all the young and talented people go when they finish Uni....'cos they don't seem to stay here
• why Perth has not made more of its most beautiful asset.....The Swan

There are other things I do not understand, but these four will do for now