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MySchool slammed

03 Feb, 2010 09:06 AM
SOME local P&C presidents are concerned about the controversial MySchool website and some refuse to view it.

The Federal Government site, which shows a school's results in national testing for reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation and numeracy, was launched last Thursday.

It enables and encourages comparisons with schools that are ``statistically similar'' as well as against the Australian ``average''.

Premier Kristina Keneally said the site showed ``information parents have been telling us they want more of not less''.

But Roz Valentine couldn't agree less. Mrs Valentine, who is the P&C president at Mary Brooksbank School in Rosemeadow said she had not yet visited the site because she was ``so disgusted with it''.

This special-needs school does not take part in the national testing used by mainstream schools, so its results data has not been published on the site.

But Mrs Valentine says the concept is wrong.

``It's already been proven by the way parents have been taking children in and out of schools,'' she said. ``It really does not look at the whole picture.''

Airds High School P&C president Wayne Sneddon said he would discuss the site with his committee today and that it was ``a touchy issue''.

Hurlstone Agricultural High School's P&C president Domenic Mosca said he hadn't had a chance to look at the site and had no opinion on its concept.

The Department of Education's South Western Sydney regional director, Tom Urry, said: ``The first P&C meeting of the year will be when most school communities come together to talk about the sections of the site they're interested in.''

Mr Urry advised parents to talk to school principals, who he said could best interpret the data.

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