Category: Education

Words of wisdom

Words of wisdom

As we celebrate Christmas, with proper respect for those of other faiths or no faiths, it seems worthwhile to acknowledge some hints from Jesus that helped create Votergrams, as recorded in Matthew’s gospel.

Don’t get angry. Sort it out with the other party and move on. Matt 5:23

When someone asks for something give it to them Chapter 5: verse 42

Love your enemies 5:44

Don’t boast about how you helped someone. 6:3

Forgive others who offend you 6:14.

Don’t store up riches for yourself 6:20

Don’t judge others 7:1

Ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.7:7

Do for others what you want them to do for you. 7:12 (eg MPs)

Be on your guard against false prophets 7:15.

It is kindness I want. 9:13

Be as cautious as snakes and as gentle as lambs. 10:16

Your words will be used to judge you 12:37

The parable of the sower 13:18 ( Sow seeds of good ideas in parliament and watch them grow into policies.)

At Christmas we see Jesus as a baby. In adulthood he offered some good hints for improving society. Have a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Greg

Public Education in crisis in NSW

Public Education

NSW Public Education is in trouble. Is it the same elsewhere? If you are interested in our children, grandchildren and great-grand-children getting the top quality education that they need for life, in our Public Schools, then this is for you.

Please, if you have not yet joined our Education interest group, join.

In democracy, works is that the government is guided by parliament and parliament does what voters ask it to do. If we don’t ask it to do more about education, others will ask it to do more about other topics. Education will languish. Disadvantage and inequality will increase.

Public Education P & Cs

According to today’s Sydney morning Herald, Bondi P & C is asking parents to chip in $80,000 for an extra teacher. The P & C is part of the Education Department. Parliament runs the Education Departments. The Education minister is a woman who was educated at Ascham, a private single sex girls high school. She is overseeing the closure of Public Girls’ High schools, like Randwick and Asquith  to merge them with boys schools, thus putting the girls under sexual pressure by the boys as a diversion from studies likely to reduce their education outcomes. The government is reducing the overall education budget by over $100 million at a time when immigration is increasing the number of students and adding extreme language difficulties to the challenges of teaching.

A Call to improve Public Education

If you know of community members keen to see our Public Schools providing the very best possible public education in Australia to their students, please urge them to join Voters Network and its Public Schooling interest group. This cannot be accomplished by Parents and Citizens Associations that are controlled by the very government making the funding cuts. Ask those interested to email us at publicschooling@voters.au and tell us what their schools need. Otherwise, children attending Public Schools in NSW are going to be given a less than optimal education. Non government school students may beaten public school students in career choice and financial wellbeing. It is always up to the voters to guide government via the parliament they elect and pay to represent them.

Public Education affects people’s lives now more than ever as manual work disappears and is grossly underpaid.

Help us build a network of voters to work WITH our elected parliaments to deliver “government FOR the people” as opposed to “for the big business billionaires” who fund politicians and political parties for their own benefit.