Are Moreton Bay Island schools bad for your kids?

from the Bay Journal
Educationalists have slammed league tables that use the the three Rs scoring of the NAPLAN released on the "My School" website last week.

Even the Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard says she opposes league tables because they are misleading and make the job of principals and teachers harder. In NSW they are illegal. The Sydney Morning Herald is risking a $55,000 fine is publishing a comparison of three schools.

The Teachers Union argument goes that league tables that rank schools are

Misleading: Publicly ranking schools based on students’ results in national tests presents an invalid and misleading picture of school performance.
Inaccurate: The NAPLAN national tests were never designed to be used to compare schools. Experts say the results are not accurate enough to be used this way.
Damaging: Schools where students do not do well in literacy and numeracy tests are likely to be unfairly branded as ‘failing’ schools.
Demoralising: It takes schools many years to throw off the tag of a ‘failing school’ and it is demoralising for students, teachers and parents. It makes it much harder for those schools to improve the performance of their students.
Unnecessary: Politicians don’t need schools to be publicly ranked to know which ones need help and more resources. Parents can already access relevant information on school performance by directly contacting schools.Read More.......