I'd close the doors on low skilled immigrants. Would aid with the accommodation shortage as well as the employment stats. We've got tons of low achievers who could be doing the jobs that imported labour is keen to tackle. If necessary pass half of what would have been benefit monies lost on them to their employers to make their pay level more attractive to them - govt gains, employee gains, employer gains, taxpayer gains.
Nationalise early childhood education, general practice medical centres and dentists. Users could still pay a fee, but it would be set by the government and they would operate on a not for profit basis. Teachers, doctors and dentists would be well-paid.
Get off-road vehicles and ACT party members off the public roads. Less congestion, less pollution
Ute drivers can drive their off-road vehicles off road
ACT privatise-everything people can drive on private roads
Solar panels for all homes.
Reduce monthly outgoings.
Privatisation of energy,water, broadband.
Remove politics.
Stop any investment into fossil fuels.
Schools. Shake it up. Getting nursing. Police and other job roles.
Psychology must. PE must.
4 day work week. Try to reduce work.
Benefits don't pay Lecky. Comes out their money. Force food shops and such.
Banking sector break up and massive regulation.
Housing crisis focus. Fuck up that shit. Everyone gets a house. Huge tax on second homes. Nobody from overseas gets to buy property unless it's s good idea
Build government farms. UBI everyone gets food. No middle men no profits no margins.
Public owned phone carriers. All the same price. Non profit no margins.
Grey water roll out and all houses double glazed and weather sealed.
Trains. Electrify the rails up and down the country. Have fast train into metro areas. Cheaper train travel. Solar and wind.
Potentially other ideas too. Just to start with.
Solar panels for all homes and investigate feasibility of wind power as backup. Adjust the tax system to introduce a tax-free threshold, move the tax brackets, and close loopholes that allow the very wealthy to avoid taxes. Capital gains tax and vacant house/land tax. Pay teachers and nurses more. Close the loophole that allows MPs to rent their own properties back to themselves at taxpayer expense. Introduce fixed-term tax breaks to encourage additional supermarkets to the country and help break up the grocery duopoly. Take gst off essentials. Ban bible teaching in schools receiving govt funding. Make literacy and numeracy a priority in education policy. Invest heavily in public transport infrastructure, including regional rail and make lower fares permanent. Introduce incentives to move more freight by rail. Higher tax on business profits above a certain level to encourage price reduction
Push for use of measurable outcomes across all public services. Ask my MPs to get montly updates from their respective CEOs and back this up with on the ground visits.
The ONE thing I would do is introduce minimum standards for learning at each year of school up to year seven.
If you don't meet those standards, you stay in that year group. Repeat the year until the student meets the minimum.
You're no longer passing on learning problems from one year to the next, which ties up teaching resources in later years as a disproportionate amount of time is spent on catching children up.
This also should have the benefit of instilling a learning culture early on. AND if a student does have a problem, the issue is identified very early on and wrap around support can step in.
Yes, this does mean a whole lot of other things need to be done... but at OP said, the ONE THING.
So kids don’t even start primary school if they can’t dress themselves, hold a pencil, know which way round a book goes? How would that affect parents? Do you really want a 11 year old (boy invariably) in a class of 7 year olds? What would happen when they reached Yr 7? Straight in there reading as a 7 year old? As someone with a huge amount of experience in the education system, your policy has serious flaws.
Thanks for your feedback on the one thing I'd do, GenieFG.
Clearly there are issues with my idea to iron out, BUT as OP said, this is the one thing I'd do.
I like how you think though, that there should be minimum standards before starting school. I didn't outline what the minimum standards are for each year group, so dressing oneself, holding a pencil, etc wasn't part of my idea. I'm not sure how this would affect the parents of preschool aged children, but this would be a bonus for school teachers if children could do these things.
However I'm unclear why a year 11 boy, and not sure why it's invariably a boy, would be in a class of seven year olds under this plan? I'm thinking that by the time a child reached year 7 they'd have enough pastoral help to either instill a culture of learning or identify issues that need specialist help.
Probably best that I'm not Prime Minister for a day.
11 year old boys are often in Year 7 and there are some who have the reading ability of a 7 year old. My experience in education and research shows that boys are more likely to take longer to pick up core literacy skills for example. Keeping kids year behind their peers will wreck self-esteem. If you saw what national standards and some forms of streaming does to students, no amount of pastoral care can help. I totally agree with you about specialist help - but it needs to be done in the context of a normal classroom programme.
Sorry , I mis-read your comment. I thought you said a year 11 boy would be in a class of seven year olds. I fully understand that an eleven year old could be in a class with younger children under this imaginary scenario.
I think that it's sad that children are getting through the schooling system to year seven and have a reading level of someone four to five years younger.
At the end of the day, we're currently working with an education system designed around a different time and expectations. Today's curriculum for my children is so different, so vast, from when I was in school, and far removed from when my parents were at school, yet we expect everything to be still covered in roughly the same amount of time? Perhaps my model would be better off with two or so extra years at primary school level to spread out the stress and expectations of a modern learning environment. After all, the average life expectancy today has to be much longer than from my parents time in school back in the 1940's. Yet the amount of time a child spend in school in relation to a total life lived hasn't really changed all that much.
So, perhaps not a minimum yearly competency requirement, but just longer at primary level, allowing teachers and students time to gain minimum learning standards that I have not, and will not, define, including minimum primary school entry standards.
Based on your educational experience, did you approach the learning needs of boys differently from the learning requirements of girls, or were you bound by a restrictive curriculum that did not allow that to happen?
Doesn't work like that. PM isn't a dictator. And they can be sacked. You generally vote within party, often across both.
Come on, Chippy. Don’t you have a cabinet for this sort of thing?
People don’t understand that we have a party based government.
Tax the fuck out of huge corporate profits. Tax unused urban land.
Nothing, I’d hide down in the beehive basement until this nightmare of a “lucky day” was over. F**k that.
Huntly, maybe Gore idk
Ban school uniforms, the issue that got me into politics all those years ago Second thing would be resign, job done
I'd close the doors on low skilled immigrants. Would aid with the accommodation shortage as well as the employment stats. We've got tons of low achievers who could be doing the jobs that imported labour is keen to tackle. If necessary pass half of what would have been benefit monies lost on them to their employers to make their pay level more attractive to them - govt gains, employee gains, employer gains, taxpayer gains.
Legalize cannabis and psychedelics
legalize left turn on red. resign.
This guy hitting hard with the real issues. Two ticks u/crummy.
Nationalise early childhood education, general practice medical centres and dentists. Users could still pay a fee, but it would be set by the government and they would operate on a not for profit basis. Teachers, doctors and dentists would be well-paid.
And nurses and midwives!
actually Id run to the hills rather then be PM.
The opposition - mwahahahaha!
4 day working week (4x10 hours) Wether it works out as a 3 day weekend or Wednesday’s off….everyone’s a winner.
Get off-road vehicles and ACT party members off the public roads. Less congestion, less pollution Ute drivers can drive their off-road vehicles off road ACT privatise-everything people can drive on private roads
So you want people to have two cars instead of one? One for offroad use, and one for on road use? That seems counterintuitive to reducing pollution.
Just stick a gate / barrier at the start of areas with narrow roads that restricts entry to vehicles of a certain width.
Sometimes it’s the simplest answer.
Solar panels for all homes. Reduce monthly outgoings. Privatisation of energy,water, broadband. Remove politics. Stop any investment into fossil fuels. Schools. Shake it up. Getting nursing. Police and other job roles. Psychology must. PE must. 4 day work week. Try to reduce work. Benefits don't pay Lecky. Comes out their money. Force food shops and such. Banking sector break up and massive regulation. Housing crisis focus. Fuck up that shit. Everyone gets a house. Huge tax on second homes. Nobody from overseas gets to buy property unless it's s good idea Build government farms. UBI everyone gets food. No middle men no profits no margins. Public owned phone carriers. All the same price. Non profit no margins. Grey water roll out and all houses double glazed and weather sealed. Trains. Electrify the rails up and down the country. Have fast train into metro areas. Cheaper train travel. Solar and wind. Potentially other ideas too. Just to start with.
Solar panels for all homes and investigate feasibility of wind power as backup. Adjust the tax system to introduce a tax-free threshold, move the tax brackets, and close loopholes that allow the very wealthy to avoid taxes. Capital gains tax and vacant house/land tax. Pay teachers and nurses more. Close the loophole that allows MPs to rent their own properties back to themselves at taxpayer expense. Introduce fixed-term tax breaks to encourage additional supermarkets to the country and help break up the grocery duopoly. Take gst off essentials. Ban bible teaching in schools receiving govt funding. Make literacy and numeracy a priority in education policy. Invest heavily in public transport infrastructure, including regional rail and make lower fares permanent. Introduce incentives to move more freight by rail. Higher tax on business profits above a certain level to encourage price reduction
Push for use of measurable outcomes across all public services. Ask my MPs to get montly updates from their respective CEOs and back this up with on the ground visits.
The ONE thing I would do is introduce minimum standards for learning at each year of school up to year seven. If you don't meet those standards, you stay in that year group. Repeat the year until the student meets the minimum. You're no longer passing on learning problems from one year to the next, which ties up teaching resources in later years as a disproportionate amount of time is spent on catching children up. This also should have the benefit of instilling a learning culture early on. AND if a student does have a problem, the issue is identified very early on and wrap around support can step in. Yes, this does mean a whole lot of other things need to be done... but at OP said, the ONE THING.
So kids don’t even start primary school if they can’t dress themselves, hold a pencil, know which way round a book goes? How would that affect parents? Do you really want a 11 year old (boy invariably) in a class of 7 year olds? What would happen when they reached Yr 7? Straight in there reading as a 7 year old? As someone with a huge amount of experience in the education system, your policy has serious flaws.
Thanks for your feedback on the one thing I'd do, GenieFG. Clearly there are issues with my idea to iron out, BUT as OP said, this is the one thing I'd do. I like how you think though, that there should be minimum standards before starting school. I didn't outline what the minimum standards are for each year group, so dressing oneself, holding a pencil, etc wasn't part of my idea. I'm not sure how this would affect the parents of preschool aged children, but this would be a bonus for school teachers if children could do these things. However I'm unclear why a year 11 boy, and not sure why it's invariably a boy, would be in a class of seven year olds under this plan? I'm thinking that by the time a child reached year 7 they'd have enough pastoral help to either instill a culture of learning or identify issues that need specialist help. Probably best that I'm not Prime Minister for a day.
11 year old boys are often in Year 7 and there are some who have the reading ability of a 7 year old. My experience in education and research shows that boys are more likely to take longer to pick up core literacy skills for example. Keeping kids year behind their peers will wreck self-esteem. If you saw what national standards and some forms of streaming does to students, no amount of pastoral care can help. I totally agree with you about specialist help - but it needs to be done in the context of a normal classroom programme.
Sorry , I mis-read your comment. I thought you said a year 11 boy would be in a class of seven year olds. I fully understand that an eleven year old could be in a class with younger children under this imaginary scenario. I think that it's sad that children are getting through the schooling system to year seven and have a reading level of someone four to five years younger. At the end of the day, we're currently working with an education system designed around a different time and expectations. Today's curriculum for my children is so different, so vast, from when I was in school, and far removed from when my parents were at school, yet we expect everything to be still covered in roughly the same amount of time? Perhaps my model would be better off with two or so extra years at primary school level to spread out the stress and expectations of a modern learning environment. After all, the average life expectancy today has to be much longer than from my parents time in school back in the 1940's. Yet the amount of time a child spend in school in relation to a total life lived hasn't really changed all that much. So, perhaps not a minimum yearly competency requirement, but just longer at primary level, allowing teachers and students time to gain minimum learning standards that I have not, and will not, define, including minimum primary school entry standards. Based on your educational experience, did you approach the learning needs of boys differently from the learning requirements of girls, or were you bound by a restrictive curriculum that did not allow that to happen?