DAY 8 in Queensland, is it just Queensland, or other states too?
Feb 22nd 2012, 8:15 pm
#1
'Made in Ulster' Member
Thread Starter
Joined: Dec 2008
Location: Brisbane, QLD. (Though an Ulster girl through and through!)
Posts: 6,578
DAY 8 in Queensland, is it just Queensland, or other states too?
So, this whole DAY 8 concept, is it just in Queensland or other states?
Basically, on the 8th day of the new school year, if the school doesn't have enough pupils, or too many, they can let teachers on contracts go, or get extra teachers in. In the UK if we ended up with less children in our schools, we just counted our lucky stars that we had a nice little class for that year, here, it's very different.
So, is this purely an Ed Qld thing, or is it Australia wide?
Basically, on the 8th day of the new school year, if the school doesn't have enough pupils, or too many, they can let teachers on contracts go, or get extra teachers in. In the UK if we ended up with less children in our schools, we just counted our lucky stars that we had a nice little class for that year, here, it's very different.
So, is this purely an Ed Qld thing, or is it Australia wide?
Feb 27th 2012, 10:41 am
#2
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,905
Re: DAY 8 in Queensland, is it just Queensland, or other states too?
Not heard of this but we are in WA.
Gems
Gems
Feb 27th 2012, 2:41 pm
#3
Just Joined
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 7
Re: DAY 8 in Queensland, is it just Queensland, or other states too?
QLD seems like a nightmare. How do other states compare? WA is another option for us.
Also, did you have to be on the ground to secure a job? Was hoping to get something sorted before leaving the UK.
Also, did you have to be on the ground to secure a job? Was hoping to get something sorted before leaving the UK.
Feb 27th 2012, 10:32 pm
#4
'Made in Ulster' Member
Thread Starter
Joined: Dec 2008
Location: Brisbane, QLD. (Though an Ulster girl through and through!)
Posts: 6,578
Re: DAY 8 in Queensland, is it just Queensland, or other states too?
After 12 years in the job, I'd leave YESTERDAY if I could find something else suitable!!!
Feb 28th 2012, 8:20 am
#5
Just Joined
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 7
Re: DAY 8 in Queensland, is it just Queensland, or other states too?
I came to feel like that about my job in Christchurch. After a while you need a change regardless. Good luck.
Mar 17th 2012, 12:32 pm
#6
Wanderer
Joined: Aug 2006
Location: Australia, Scotland, NZ, China, Spain, Scotland again wha hae!
Posts: 493
Re: DAY 8 in Queensland, is it just Queensland, or other states too?
I've only heard of it in Qld - I attended small schools here as a kid & remember the frenzied campaigns at the start of the year to try to get or keep a teacher!
Have you had any luck in the private sector?? Toowoomba has so many independents I'd hoped you might have got a foot in there??
After a disastrous stint with Lutheran Ed I'm now in local gov't - has it's own forms of hell - top jobs held by priveleged yobs who live outside our region & make illinformed decisions that crush local battlers. But they still get to finish at 430, drive their ratepayer funded car home to Robina or Carindale.
Lol the way the world works can be so depressing!!! I'm loving being a fulltime librarian without having to fear I'll be forced to drop everything & cover classes. Doubt I will ever go back!!!
Have you had any luck in the private sector?? Toowoomba has so many independents I'd hoped you might have got a foot in there??
After a disastrous stint with Lutheran Ed I'm now in local gov't - has it's own forms of hell - top jobs held by priveleged yobs who live outside our region & make illinformed decisions that crush local battlers. But they still get to finish at 430, drive their ratepayer funded car home to Robina or Carindale.
Lol the way the world works can be so depressing!!! I'm loving being a fulltime librarian without having to fear I'll be forced to drop everything & cover classes. Doubt I will ever go back!!!
