A letter arrived from the high school today. It was dated August 10, so it should have arrived earlier, but we don’t check the box more than twice a week and they had the wrong number in the address. Parents don’t like letters from schools. Normally it’s a bill, or there’s a prospect someone may [...]
Fair deal for rural students
Submissions to a Senate inquiry into Rural and Regional Access to Secondary and Tertiary Education Opportunities closed on Friday. Many people are aware of the controversy that followed changes in the Federal Budget to Youth Allowance and the consequences for young people from the country. The Senate referred concerns about the changes to the Rural [...]
Free public education
There is no such thing as free public education in South Australia. We’re faced with paying $680 to send Kathleen and Michael to high school and a lesser amount for Jim and Maggie to attend primary school. All up it will cost about $1000 plus more for stationery and excursions. Juliet organised with the high [...]
Cadet journalist job interviews
I interviewed six young people today for a career-entry position as a cadet journalist. Experience was irrelevant. The applicants were school leavers, not university graduates. The required skills were good English, an awareness of current affairs, curiosity and effective communication. I asked each of them 11 interview questions. They all performed okay during this stage, [...]
Gladigau Park Kindergarten
This is the Gladigau Park Kindergarten class of 2008. Jim is in the front row on the right-hand side wearing mittens. Maggie is in the middle of the centre row. It’s been a good kindergarten with flexible hours, which helped Juliet get work. It’s not as close as we had in Kalgoorlie, where we just [...]
