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GROSS ACT OF BETRAYAL TO ENGLISH TEACHERS

The English Teachers Association WA (ETA) says “Enough is enough!” The Curriculum Council has betrayed English teachers time and time again over the last two years.

The latest announcements by the Minister and the Curriculum Council leave English teachers and their students in a totally untenable situation come next Wednesday when classes resume.

‘It is completely unacceptable for English teachers to use an assessment system that the Minister and the Curriculum Council have publicly discredited,’ said the Executive of the ETA this afternoon.

We urgently call upon the Minister to resolve this matter in consultation with English teachers before students commence classes on Wednesday.

We also call upon the Minister to publicly apologise for the distress that has been caused to English teachers over the last two years.

The incompetent implementation of the new course has demoralized and divided English teachers in this state.

ETA has worked hard to support its members in the face of what has been a badly managed process of implementation.

Unless this debacle is resolved immediately, we foresee a complete loss of public confidence in education in this state, an irreversible demoralisation of English teachers, and great risk to those students sitting their TEE this year.

Wendy Cody
President
On behalf of the Executive
27 Jan 2007 by ETA