Australian Education Failing Our Children

Perfect. Just what I need to know.

After living in Japan, USA, and Germany over the past 20 years, my family (kids 10 and 12) will enter the public school system in QLD.

What goes up must go down and what goes down must go up???? Please (;)-[-<.

At least I know the starting point for them !

But we don't value education unless it's an aspiration for private schools. Looking more like the US all the time.

We have out of control women teaching children.

This is so funny, we deserve it.

We need to check if this correlates with IQ scores if it does then its not the fault of education, if it doesn't then we probably need stop funding private schools and improve our curriculum and funding to public schools.

Definitely wouldn't have anything to do with the gender of ~85% teachers.

Wonder if the change in ethnicity has something to do with it.

well, when we are wasting pre teens at primary school with LGBTQI+ lessons on "their right to choose" and many other wastes of time, it's a wonder how any school leavers are going to get a real job when they graduate - reading, writing, arithmetic... ever hear of that? hmm?

It's deeply disturbing that an ideological war has been fought out in our classroom by politicians. An educational system built on a foundation of inequality and social hierarchy has left this country economy and living standard unhinged and behind. It really obvious that nobody care about their children future...

If it wasn't for the Asian kids imagine how bad the charts would look. Just as well we have Asian students.

Perhaps Australia should just corrupt the process and fudge the numbers like they do in the PRC. (cherrypicking...)

Too much money spent and standard's drop blame the parents and students they are not taking education seriously .And strict discipline was removed years ago .

The educational system is teaching kids to become employees, not business entrepreneurs.

I disagree with your comments about the schools from the 4 provinces in China, I assume your comments are correct or even partially correct(I suppose you have checked for accuracy) then what about the other non participating provinces if you take students from 2nd or 3rd rank provinces, I have confidence that they will still outrank/perform if not equal to the performance of the Australian students.
The bottom line is Australian students should compare themselves with the BEST in the world and not just those from just OECD countries, besides China countries like Finland, Singapore, Korea, etc. If Australian politicians and also parents treat education as important or hold in high regard as any sport(unfortunately not) then the parents will not be so concern about the level of education for the 15teen yr old students.
Education for MOST Asian parents is VERY important that is why their children outperform most students from OECD countries incl. Australia. Just look at the Asian student's performance in any Australian school.
BTW I am Asian and I push my children and they did very well. That may not be the right practice for every parent. Enough said.