1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nason. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 2: Jonesy the matter arms for the pub test and today 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 2: napland does it pass the pub test? 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 3: One in three Australian school students aren't meeting literacy and 5 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 3: numerousy benchmarks. That's what we have discovered from last year's naplan. 6 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 3: The results have just come out. What does this mean 7 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 3: and does it matter? The nap plan is designed to 8 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 3: see the standard of schools and teachers. I guess it 9 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 3: stresses students out. Some are saying that's a good thing 10 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 3: early practice tests. How do you feel the gnaplan? Does 11 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 3: it passed the pub test? 12 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 4: I'm a teacher at European School in Sydney and I 13 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 4: was able to be educated. My wife is educated. And 14 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 4: I'll tell you what. It's the technology of the children 15 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 4: and it's all of this social media. The children do 16 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 4: not have their mind on school. Any of the parents 17 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 4: are very lazy parents. 18 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: At about eleven, I knew that All was an academic, 19 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: so I basically just day during him out the window 20 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: kept me cool. I've got on mclough. It's not to 21 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,639 Speaker 1: put all on end or you're doing your best. You'll 22 00:00:57,680 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: learn basically it's just a child. 23 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 5: Certainly not because I'm a deputy principal and does anyone 24 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 5: talk about the population mix where we're walking into classrooms 25 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 5: where basically twenty five or thirty out of the thirty 26 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 5: kids are all born out of the seas. They don't 27 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 5: speak English at home, their parents don't speak English, and 28 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 5: there's no support. So measuring it against the. 29 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 6: Time when Australia was an Anglo population and not taking 30 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 6: into account the population changes of non English speakers means 31 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 6: it definitely fails the pup test and it's a waste 32 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 6: of time. 33 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 3: Wow, interesting perspective. 34 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 2: It's going to keep up with the times because if 35 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 2: you're in another country, if you say we're in France, 36 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 2: you'd have to speak French. 37 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 3: Well, we went into the school, surely, I don't know. 38 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 2: How do you get on? 39 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 3: Well, we do have I'd like to think we have 40 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 3: support for those families and the kids. That's a very 41 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 3: interesting perspective. 42 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 2: Thank you for all your calls.