NSW School Curriculum Overhaul

[Black Orchid]

The government will cut more than 80 school-developed courses as part of its plan to pare back an overcrowded curriculum, but critics say the move fails to ease the burden for most teachers and students as the subjects were studied by so few.

Circus skills, which had 82 enrolments last year, classical ballet and travel and tourism will be among those to go, as will drone basics, studied by four students last year, leather, studied by three, and puppetry, studied by none.

Also on the chopping block are Catholic Studies Life Skills, bushcraft, game design, cartooning, music theatre, philosophy and equine studies. Big history, a Macquarie University-developed subject on the evolution of the universe from the big bang, will also go.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the government had exceeded its target of reducing the elective courses developed by high schools by at least 20 per cent. “We need our schools to be focussed on the core learning areas,” Ms Berejiklian said.

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“Reducing the number of subjects was not what principals were calling for. It was the imposition of things like healthy eating, road safety, all those extraneous things that traditionally parents or church would have been responsible for.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/dro ... 56ui1.html

A review undertaken by Professor Geoff Masters supports the changes by the NSW Government.

The changes will ensure teachers have the time and support to teach fundamental subjects in English, maths and science.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the overhaul will raise standards and equip students for the jobs of the future.

“The NSW Government will be taking a back to basics approach to the curriculum. Literacy and numeracy will remain the focus throughout a student’s school experience,” Ms Berejiklian said.

https://www.nsw.gov.au/news/nsw-school- ... m-overhaul

Well done to Gladys. The first shakeup in 30 years. It's a start. I am still gobsmacked that subjects like puppetry and circus skills are taught in schools.

Comrade Dan is probably still clinging to that abominable "Safe Schools Program."

[billy the kid]

Hopefully Mark Lathams bill on "gender fluidity" wil also go through so we can get
rid of a bit more of the crap.....

[Valkie]

Hopefully Mark Lathams bill on "gender fluidity" wil also go through so we can get
rid of a bit more of the crap.....

Why?

Don't you want your kids and grandkids instructed on the 72 genders, how to masturbate with household items, and how to address someone of unknown gender without offending their mental illness?

You fascist.

[Nom De Plume]

Hopefully Mark Lathams bill on "gender fluidity" wil also go through so we can get
rid of a bit more of the crap.....

Why?

Don't you want your kids and grandkids instructed on the 72 genders, how to masturbate with household items, and how to address someone of unknown gender without offending their mental illness?

You fascist.

It is so confusing for youth and children to wrap their head around gender fluidity in a world filled with gender normalcy.
Perhaps the gender fluids need basic awareness of what it means to be and feel gender normal?