Some teachers giving kids the NAPLAN test decided to cheat. Most adults no doubt thought, Yeah well, there’s always a few, and got on with their lives. Not so the Australian Education Union. It’s the stress, you see. Anne Crawford, the Union’s Vice-President:
“I am not saying that Correne did not do this, but in any kind of process the circumstances and the context will make a difference,” Ms Crawford said.
“This is a highly politicised matter. But this should not mean that we have a teacher hung, drawn and quartered without justice.”
Ms Crawford said Ms Woolmer had found this year’s NAPLAN testing “particularly stressful” because of the essential place it now had in assessing school performance.
As it happened, I had just been reading about Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi prison in which the US military humiliated, maltreated and just plain tortured some prisoners. Continue reading »