A four-hour day sitting in a radio booth isn’t really work, fatso

12 Responses to A four-hour day sitting in a radio booth isn’t really work, fatso

1. NFA says:

   16 November, 2023 at 2:35 pm

   It actually sounds like a good idea.

   The proof will come with positive results, or not.

   Sandilands ratings must be down.
2. twostix says:

   16 November, 2023 at 2:50 pm

   Sandilands asked his co-host Jackie O whether she would want her child at home.

   ‘Permanently? No…. not at all,’ she replied

   Behold the modern Australian “mother”.
3. A reader says:

   16 November, 2023 at 2:51 pm

   For once in his life he is correct
4. John Brumble says:

   16 November, 2023 at 3:48 pm

   Problem is… there are teachers who are overworked and underpaid. There are teachers who work incredibly long hours and are vastly under-remunerated for the skill-set they bring.

   But there are also teachers who do bugger all and aren’t worth half the salary paid.

   What should happen is that, through a fairly simple system of comparative student results and taking into account the underlying school results, teachers who perform better would be rewarded and teachers who did not would not. It has the added advantage of incentivising good teachers to seek additional bonuses by taking on the harder cases.

   Unfortunately, the unions want to protect the second lot and don’t care about the first lot; and the inner-city snobs who love ragging on private schools because they know their school attracts the best teachers and the plebs can pay for it, are quite happy with the status quo.
5. NFA says:

   16 November, 2023 at 4:02 pm

   Chevalier College responds,

   Media Response Regarding Redesigning Learning for 2024

   ———————
   Like I said… Sandilands is trying to boost his ratings. Maybe his contract is up for renewal decision!
6. Tel says:

   16 November, 2023 at 7:10 pm

   … There are teachers who work incredibly long hours and are vastly under-remunerated …

   … But there are also teachers who do bugger all and aren’t worth half the salary paid …

   In the long run, an unstable situation … the small number of hard workers, going day after day watching others make a sucker out of them, will eventually either give up and do something else or join the crowd and get lazy themselves.

   Maybe a tiny number of dedicated angels love the job so very much that they live in a world of their own … but you can’t depend on that to build a nation. It’s worse, because a genuinely dedicated person feels the need to speak up and demand improvements in the system, which is fatal in the education industry these days. You are thus depend on people who work hard, keep their heads down, know they are getting shafted by their co-workers and also shut up and say nothing about the failures they see every day … a rare breed!!!

   The best we can hope for is the whole thing goes online and opens up the chance for small players to get in there.
7. NFA says:

   16 November, 2023 at 9:16 pm

   what Tel says: 16 November, 2023 at 7:10 pm
8. C.L. says:

   16 November, 2023 at 9:32 pm

   I guess my intent here was to rubbish Sandilands for pretending he’s a spokesbloke for The Workers rather than to deal with the proposal in question.

   On the latter, I’ve always thought there is too much formal ‘education’ foisted on the young. The model we use now was borrowed from the Prussians in the nineteenth century and hasn’t changed much. By all means shorten the school week to four days or even three IMO – provided the teenagers have a job. Create that as a discrete education-career stream for those students (and parents) who want it.

   Related: had to laugh at this at the ABC the other day:

   Meet the women from remote communities who are becoming experts on childcare policy.

   Formally known as motherhood.
9. NFA says:

   16 November, 2023 at 11:47 pm

   Wouldn’t Sandilands comments be dis-information if not a hate crime?

   Asking for a shock jock.
10. funes says:

    17 November, 2023 at 12:46 am

    Parents forced to become experts in early childhood education

    OMG – what kind of country do we live in where middle classes cannot simply pay for problems to go away … The Horror!
11. Pommy Al says:

    17 November, 2023 at 10:32 am

    Teachers-skillset-oxymoron.
12. NFA says:

    22 November, 2023 at 9:42 am

    Well, how about that!

    Kyle and Jackie O sign on for massive decade long deal

    Kyle and Jackie O have signed the longest radio deal in Australian history, worth potentially more than $200m, and will launch into the Melbourne market.