I started a thread about the MySchool site and initially i thought it was a good idea too. But I'm fast changing my ideas. Having looked at the site there is no mention of the many other aspects of learning that a school contributes to: pastoral, physical, emotional intelligence etc. Only 1 facet, the academic. Now my children have attended schools where the Naplan scores have been high but i'm not necessarily happy with these schools. As somebody who has worked in an educational setting I know that there is so much more to learning. ATM I am fence sitting about the whole thing but i would have thought the general public would have been more intelligent in their use of the site. It is an interesting source of information but really should only be a part of the bigger picture of selecting a good school. A case in point was my old primary school: it is covered in red BUT I know that it is in the centre of a very underpriviledged area where mainly indigenous students now attend. If you read the school blurb before you look at the results you will read evidence that this school has won many state, national and even Commonwealth awards for excellence in teaching indigenous students. Would that be a good school? Hell yes!!!

Yes i will be reading the Myschool site for info on the schools i am hoping to send my boys to when we move... but I already know the schools will be good So don't really care what it says.

I don't know if i would offer to supervise naplan testing I tend to have faith in most educators. if the staff at my DD's private school boycotted the test then i would trust their judgement and back them up... same at with her first school where i worked... if they boycotted i would support them... because as teachers they were the best and really knew what they were talking about... it was an Independant school though... they were used to bucking the trend when it came to Government policy which was often based on false ideologies and teaching in a way that was convenient and cheap... not aspiring to actually providing what each child needed... just providing one-size-fits-all services Off my soapbox now.