Test teachers for kids’ future

EDUCATION is the foundation for success in life and ensuring that only the best teachers are educating the next generation is essential

EDUCATION is the foundation for success in life and ensuring that only the best teachers are educating the next generation is essential.

It means Australia can become a global leader in education.

Ensuring teachers meet a minimum understanding of literacy and numeracy is not only necessary but a vital way to increase our schooling results.

A child with a good education improves in society, but that has to start with a teacher who knows the basics.

The test will provide a benchmark for teachers to pass before they can hit the classrooms.

By ensuring only the best people are teaching we can strive to push our education standards further and make sure our youngest minds are prepared and set up to make positive changes in our community.

Testing of would-be teachers is something that needs to be embraced.

The test will raise the standards of teaching, and that can only be a good thing.

You wouldn’t go to a doctor who doesn’t know their stuff so why would you send your child to a teacher who doesn’t know basic literacy and numeracy?

In the long run families with young children will be more willing to stay in the Territory, instead of moving interstate or sending their kids to boarding school to get the education they want for their child.

Those children that grow up here with a good education under their belt will be more likely to stay in the NT and it will boost our population and ensure that great minds continue to work here and improve the Territory.