ONCE being a teacher was highly attractive to school leavers and others. This has transgressed to a state of alarm where teacher dissatisfaction and resignation has reached such startling levels that schools can't be staffed and casuals nearly outnumber permanent employees in many regions.
Pupil attendance and behavioural issues arise more notably in regions of low socio-economic resources where many senior pupils are averse to school attendance until reaching leaving age at 17. Not all children are university aspirants. The school leaving age and programming could be amended to suit. Much attention has sparked a need for a fundamental school learning review as in the English sector of Reading and Writing, plus Arithmetic with a NAPLAN reflective in some areas, particularly punctuation, sentence structure, grammar et al.
