Comments on: Govts part of the black education problem http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/12/20/chris-graham-govts-part-of-the-black-education-problem/ now with extra source Sat, 25 May 2013 16:00:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sottile6 http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/12/20/chris-graham-govts-part-of-the-black-education-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-232796 sottile6 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:05:32 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=339467#comment-232796 The main difference between Chris Sarra and advocates of rote learning is that Sarra is a teacher with a lot of experience and so he knows what he is talking about. A ridiculous rote learning scheme was bound to fail as any teacher with classroom experience knows. Why would anyone experiment on kids like that to trial something which has been discredited for 50 years? The main difference between Chris Sarra and advocates of rote learning is that Sarra is a teacher with a lot of experience and so he knows what he is talking about. A ridiculous rote learning scheme was bound to fail as any teacher with classroom experience knows. Why would anyone experiment on kids like that to trial something which has been discredited for 50 years?

]]> By: Bob Durnan http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/12/20/chris-graham-govts-part-of-the-black-education-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-232776 Bob Durnan Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:26:20 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=339467#comment-232776 Why would Chris Graham give links to irrelevant quotes by Pyne, whilst failing to substantiate his claims about the magic of the Sarra method by supplying any links to the allegedly crucial evidence? Unless ... Nor does Graham appear to have spent much time in remote communities recently, or he would have seen that most of them got quite a lot out of the stimulus spending. Why would Chris Graham give links to irrelevant quotes by Pyne, whilst failing to substantiate his claims about the magic of the Sarra method by supplying any links to the allegedly crucial evidence? Unless …
Nor does Graham appear to have spent much time in remote communities recently, or he would have seen that most of them got quite a lot out of the stimulus spending.

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