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Speaker 1: Together duper c Ellen Right, Well, this is no surprise

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Speaker 1: if you've been following the NCAA exam results lately. The

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Speaker 1: latest set are of Shakra as well. So we've got

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Speaker 1: the compulsory NUMEROUSY nca entrance test, fifty five percent of

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Speaker 1: students past that, the writing test sixty six percent of

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Speaker 1: students past that, and reading, thank god, got up to

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Speaker 1: seventy percent passing that. Von Quio is the Secondary Principal's

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Speaker 1: Association President A. Vaughan.

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Speaker 2: Hey, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. I can't imagine you're surprised

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Speaker 1: by this, are you?

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Speaker 2: No? No, we I saw the numbers a little while

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Speaker 2: ago and it still makes for pretty depressing reading.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what do we do about it? Do you reckon?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's plenty of believers that have been pulled at

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Speaker 2: the moment. What we've got as those assessments, the majority

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Speaker 2: of students that we're doing those were year ten, so

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Speaker 2: we don't have to panic too much right now. But

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Speaker 2: what we know we have is a literacy and numeracy problem.

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Speaker 2: We know there's a whole lot of students coming to

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Speaker 2: us in year nine that are well behind where they

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Speaker 2: need to be, and we're caughting that awkward situation where

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Speaker 2: we've got a new assessment regime laid on to some

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Speaker 2: students who haven't had the benefit of perhaps the attention

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Speaker 2: that the younger colleagues will get over the next couple

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Speaker 2: of years as we try and get them up to speed.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so are you on board with the idea of

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Speaker 1: the one hour of reading, writing and maths at the

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Speaker 1: primary school level to get them ready?

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Speaker 2: What I'm on board with is the fact that we

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Speaker 2: know that kulds come to us in year nine quite

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Speaker 2: significantly behind where they need to be, and we've got

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Speaker 2: to do something different to what we have in doing. Otherwise,

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Speaker 2: we're going to carry on doing the same thing right

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Speaker 2: with the same results.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like a yes, Sporn, I'm going to take

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Speaker 1: that as a yes. Thank you very much, appreciate your time.

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