This story appeared in the November 2013 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
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Australian Education Union (AEU) members in Victoria’s public schools have voted to take stop-work action over low pay and excessive workloads.
It's as easy as disengaging a button or key but it's taken a long time to spread the message that idling engines near schools is a danger to children's health.
Parents and teachers have called out the chaos of NAPLAN testing after a widespread outage wreaked havoc across thousands of schools.
It’s easy to talk about cost of living as something remote and theoretical, with casual statements about belt tightening and cutting back on non-essentials.
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