Middling Mediocrity Ensured

So we are to be educated the same,
minted in common coin with a name
attached to the substance of what it is
to be Australian - a giddy idea for our
tight-arsed politicians. Canberra elects
a common core curriculum selected
by consensus (of conformist and
federally elected) elitist thinkers.

Far be it from me to demur - it sounds
sensible, albeit dispensable, and there isn’t
a needed budget increase. So, if we are
to continue to produce quintessential
Australians why not leave it alone –
the bloody way it was is working okay!

‘New curriculum confuses old values
and resources new stereotypes’.

Some headline - unfortunately true,
with middling mediocrity ensured.
It is the sort of idea one expects from
Canberra in an election year; though the
debate from the States suggests we’re
not through with the robust give-and-take
we’re used to, nor that we’ll sink to the
same levels of inane, nonsensical
conformity demanded - just yet.
© I.D. Carswell 2007-02-05