11 years left - then no physics students (1 Viewer)

[tywebb]

Dumbing down in schools is so bad that in 11 years Australia will have no physics students left

Even worse for girls - that's 8 years.

 

[tywebb]

Well you can't make good wine from bad berries.

If the only Australians who are breeding are the neanderbogans and those from better stock refuse to breed, what results is an anti-Darwinian devolution.

 

[liamkk112]

that’s surprising considering how much people want to study engineering which would motivate them to take physics in high school. probably to do with the teacher shortage in physics as well

 

[Eagle Mum]

Physics isn’t taught well at high schools. My son’s physics teacher readily admitted he didn’t understand the equations my son used in his physics assignment beyond the high school sheet, which DS used to account for friction in the real world vs frictionless reality, so gave him 100%. Probably just as well that the school buys practice exams with solutions. My son is now a second year R & D Engineering student and has deep dived into his physics and engineering textbooks and loves understanding it all fully (currently has a perfect GPA).

The physics teacher left for the private school sector and now my daughter is taught physics by someone who is employed as a biology teacher and doesn’t know any physics. If she had a crystal ball last year, she would have picked a different subject but you can’t change HSC subject choices in Yr 12. Fortunately, she isn’t aiming for a 99+ ATAR as her older sister and brother had to achieve for their Uni courses.

 

[Average Boreduser]

Physics isn’t taught well at high schools. My son’s physics teacher readily admitted he didn’t understand the equations my son used in his physics assignment beyond the high school sheet, which DS used to account for friction in the real world vs frictionless reality, so gave him 100%. Probably just as well that the school buys practice exams with solutions. My son is now a second year R & D Engineering student and has deep dived into his physics and engineering textbooks and loves understanding it all fully (currently has a perfect GPA).

The physics teacher left for the private school sector and now my daughter is taught physics by someone who is employed as a biology teacher and doesn’t know any physics. If she had a crystal ball last year, she would have picked a different subject but you can’t change HSC subject choices in Yr 12. Fortunately, she isn’t aiming for a 99+ ATAR as her older sister and brother had to achieve for their Uni courses.

Agreed. i currently have an SOR teacher teaching me physics.

 

[youraverageangel]

Nah fr, my teaching for physics aint teaching me shat and isnt physics qualified either
@Susu123 can vouch

 

[Scrambled]

nahh my physics teacher is literally the head of the science faculty at my school and she just brings up a video and gets us to do worksheets (no one does them)

 

[arcadian]

This might be an unpopular opinion but I think that the root of all the issues we have with education in Australia today is because of the frankly DISGRACEFUL approach to education in our primary schools. When I was in Year 6, there were still people who DIDN'T KNOW THEIR SIX TIMES TABLES and couldn't spell words like giraffe. Hell, there are people in senior high school whose handwriting could be mistaken for a Year 4's, and cannot spell Naplan's so-called higher-order words like eucalyptus. This is not to shame anyone for not being able to do so, but to highlight that THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IN AN APPARENTLY FIRST-WORLD COUNTRY.

The tall poppy syndrome in some primary schools is ridiculous (and is encouraged by the teachers themselves!), where you get shit on for supposedly being "unnecessarily ahead" when primary schools are really just big babysitting centres. If students were actually educated properly and being NURTURED instead of being fed the "school is only about play and having fun!!", we would have well-informed young people specialising and becoming exceptional achievers in critical fields from HIGH SCHOOL and not TURNING AWAY from STEM in senior high school and uni because they think they're "not smart enough" or the subject is "not interesting" or "boring".

It is ENTIRELY the fault of the education system for blatantly throwing young minds with limitless potential for STEM in the GARBAGE. Shame on this country's education system.

 

[Eagle Mum]

This might be an unpopular opinion but I think that the root of all the issues we have with education in Australia today is because of the frankly DISGRACEFUL approach to education in our primary schools. When I was in Year 6, there were still people who DIDN'T KNOW THEIR SIX TIMES TABLES and couldn't spell words like giraffe. Hell, there are people in senior high school whose handwriting could be mistaken for a Year 4's, and cannot spell Naplan's so-called higher-order words like eucalyptus. This is not to shame anyone for not being able to do so, but to highlight that THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IN AN APPARENTLY FIRST-WORLD COUNTRY.

I suspect many people in the education depts confuse equity (which the media and public demand) with equal outcomes. It would take a lot more resources to improve the performance of the bottom students, who often are in the lowest socioeconomic quartile, so they simply drop benchmarks and that is all they expect anyone to achieve. Which is probably why there is such a HUGE coaching industry outside the formal school system.

 

[arcadian]

education depts confuse

or here's a thought: they don't give two flying shits about it as long as the numbers look good for them in their reports and there's money in their pockets.

Edit:
This country is plenty privileged enough to fix some of our most pervasive problems, but the doorknobs in politics and corporate would prefer to warm their hands instead because how could you pull wool over the peasants' eyes then??? How could you fool them into thinking that e.g. climate change isn't an issue or that nuclear reactors ARE A JOLLY FUCKING GOOD IDEA??? Ignorance starts in our schools and we are seeing the repercussions of this throughout society today.

 

[iloveeggs]

i go to a selective school and we are genuinely cooked - like both the yr 11 physics teachers have 0 clue what theyre doing and out of our cohort with 48 ppl in it i could could the number of girls in it on my fingers. my teacher has a doctorate but can't teach so ppl are surviving just off tutoring atp

 

[liamkk112]

This might be an unpopular opinion but I think that the root of all the issues we have with education in Australia today is because of the frankly DISGRACEFUL approach to education in our primary schools. When I was in Year 6, there were still people who DIDN'T KNOW THEIR SIX TIMES TABLES and couldn't spell words like giraffe. Hell, there are people in senior high school whose handwriting could be mistaken for a Year 4's, and cannot spell Naplan's so-called higher-order words like eucalyptus. This is not to shame anyone for not being able to do so, but to highlight that THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IN AN APPARENTLY FIRST-WORLD COUNTRY.

The tall poppy syndrome in some primary schools is ridiculous (and is encouraged by the teachers themselves!), where you get shit on for supposedly being "unnecessarily ahead" when primary schools are really just big babysitting centres. If students were actually educated properly and being NURTURED instead of being fed the "school is only about play and having fun!!", we would have well-informed young people specialising and becoming exceptional achievers in critical fields from HIGH SCHOOL and not TURNING AWAY from STEM in senior high school and uni because they think they're "not smart enough" or the subject is "not interesting" or "boring".

It is ENTIRELY the fault of the education system for blatantly throwing young minds with limitless potential for STEM in the GARBAGE. Shame on this country's education system.

ngl i learnt nothing in primary school or even years 7-9 really and year 10 was like some content but barely