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Committing to the toughest teaching gig in the country
June 23, 2011
And it was the day only one child turned up. While the eager student sat alone in the classroom, the half-dozen teachers at the school sat in the staffroom, chatting and drinking cups of tea. Why didn't at least one of them teach the only student? "We didn't see the point," was the attitude.
So why would that child bother coming to school the following day, or ever again?
The teachers have since left, and an overhaul of the selection process in the past year means fewer teachers with that mindset remain in the system.
Gone are the days when the Territory government tried to entice teachers to remote schools by promising a great lifestyle, an adventure fit for a series of Survivor or a working holiday. One of the first reforms made by Education Department chief executive Gary Barnes when he arrived in Darwin about two years ago was to change the way the department recruits teachers for its 86 very remote communities.