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NSW教师工会威胁临时教师和退休教师说，如果他们同意监考下个月的全国测试他们会进入一个很“不友好的环境”。
NSW的教育部长已经到劳工仲裁所要求教师工会不得阻止NAPLAN的举行。同时教育部联系了零时教师和退休教师，希望他们能够在教师公会会员罢工的情况下监考NAPLAN。
Union threatens retired teachers
TEACHERS unions in NSW have warned casual and retired teachers they will enter a "hostile environment" if they agree to administer national literacy and numeracy tests in schools next month.
The threat comes despite union accusations of intimidation and strong-arm tactics by state education ministers, who have challenged the union ban on the NAPLAN tests in industrial tribunals.
A spokeswoman for NSW Education Minister Verity Firth confirmed her department was contacting casual and retired teachers to ask whether they would administer the tests, if the union ban were to stick.
The department will also fall back on about 3000 HSC exam invigilators, if required.
The spokeswoman said senior departmental staff were being asked to volunteer to administer the tests, but were not being instructed to do so.
But in a "message for casual/retired members" on its website yesterday, the NSW Teachers Federation warns: "You should be aware that if you accept the Department of Education and Training's offer, you may quickly find yourself in a hostile environment where the teachers, and in many cases this includes the principal, have refused to administer NAPLAN 2010.
"These teachers and principals will not thank you for your intervention.
"The federation strongly advises you to reject this offer and not place yourself in a difficult position in the current dispute."
The union opposition to the tests is that they could be used to construct "league tables" of school performance based on information on the federal government's new My School website.
The NSW Industrial Relations Commission, which has strongly recommended that teachers lift the ban, yesterday adjourned an application by the state government seeking full orders against the industrial action.
Joan Lemaire, from the NSW Teachers Federation, said the department should put its energy into resolving the dispute instead of recruiting casual and retired teachers to run the test.
She denied the message on the federation's website was a threat.
"I believe it is providing information to casual teachers," she said.
Ron Ikin, from the NSW Institute of Senior Educational Administrators, said his members were concerned about being forced to run NAPLAN.
"We don't believe our members should be directed and that this would be a real conflict situation in schools," he said. "Our concern is the relationship between support staff outside schools and teachers and principals and parents. That relationship is far more important than any single test."
Education Minister Julia Gillard yesterday described the ban on NAPLAN by the Australian Education Union and its state counterparts as "a foolish course that would be bad for students, bad for schools, bad for parents, bad for the nation's education system".
She said she would not negotiate about what was included on My School.
"I'm determined that the national tests will go ahead," she said.
"I'm obviously working with state and territory ministers on contingency plans. We've got to remember that the impact of this ban, even if it goes ahead, is likely to be very patchy.
"That is, it will only affect some schools and we need contingency arrangements to roll out the national tests in those schools."
The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission will meet today for an urgent hearing, sought by the Queensland government in a bid to outlaw the teachers' industrial action.
Queensland Teachers Union president Steve Ryan said its position remained the same, despite the commission's earlier directive to cease the action and the possibility of fines or deregistration.
"In the future, if we've got to deal with those sorts of penalties, then we'll deal with them," he said.
Queensland Education Minister Geoff Wilson said contingency plans were in place to ensure the tests went ahead next month, including calling in part-time, casual or relief teachers for shifts.
The relief teaching agency has already sent emails to supply teachers to find out how many are available.
The government is confident they will find the 6000 teachers required to supervise the tests.
Mr Wilson said the cost to the taxpayer could be up to $4 million, but failing to conduct the tests would jeopardise federal funding worth about $20m.
Queensland's Acting Premier, Paul Lucas, said teachers must ensure the tests went ahead.
"Can I just say to the teachers, don't let a dispute between you and the federal government degenerate into a penalty for school kids and their parents," he said.
"Yes, we will take action in relation to the Industrial Relations Commission and we will make sure that these tests are administered because (parents) have every right to see them."
In Western Australia, a spokesman for Education Minister Elizabeth Constable said there were enough supply teachers, education department staff and aides who could properly supervise the tests.
The industrial relations commission in WA has banned the industrial action.
Victorian authorities said they expected the tests would go ahead. |
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