What if schools were truly accountable to their communities, what would be happening?
I think if you ask that question, you start asking the question ‘what does accountability mean?’ and how it is managed and how transparent it is – and the second you ask that question, the issue becomes ‘what is the purpose of Education?’
There is no getting around the fact that education has a set of broader set of important contributions to make than just providing children with a set of facts or knowledge – those are some of the issues I want to talk about today.
I think the important point to make is that young people spend a significant proportion of their life in the hands of teachers, kindergarten, pre-school through to university. Therefore, if we don’t accept the responsibility as teachers to be accountable for our performance, whatever that performance means, then I think we have a problem. We’re still having a problem in this country confronting the issue of accepting that people with responsibility for education need to be accountable for how they deliver....
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