General News
12 June, 2024
Letters: Congratulations to school
Congratulations to school Sir, It is with great pleasure I read that Wedderburn College has achieved the seemingly impossible to not only embrace the school-wide positive behaviour support program, which includes all aspects of the whole school...
Congratulations to school
Sir, It is with great pleasure I read that Wedderburn College has achieved the seemingly impossible to not only embrace the school-wide positive behaviour support program, which includes all aspects of the whole school community but also have everyone on the same page (Loddon Herald, May 23).
Perhaps small is beautiful or expert communication hit the right spot. Whatever the reason in my experience as a teacher for the last 35 years in challenging schools, this is no easy feat.
My last school which was double the size and culturally diverse, also ran this program but did not achieve this level of cohesiveness. Congratulations Wedderburn.
Rhonda McTaggart
Korong Vale
At odds with inquiry
Sir, It’s time for Jacinta Allan to come clean about why she made a captain’s call, and overturned her own government’s “Native Bird Hunting Inquiry” recommendation that duck shooting be banned. Her response to date has been that duck killing remains “a legitimate pastime”. The inquiry says otherwise, as do the people of WA, NSW and Queensland.
Not only has the premier gone against her own party’s recommendations, she now rubs salt into the wounds of everyone who opposes this horrific legal slaughter, by announcing that over $10 million in the Budget to promote duck and quail shooting.
Why allocate funds to just 0.17 per cent of Victoria’s 6.7 million people who create annual killing fields rather than listening to the 88 per cent of Victorians concerned about the maiming and suffering of ducks?*
Many Victorians believe that the premier is under the influence of her duck shooting husband and/or that she is bowing to threats made by a bloc of trade unions linked to Labor. Which is it Premier?
Premier, why do you continue to waste taxpayers dollars and the time of thousands of Victorians who wrote a record amount of 10,402 submissions to ignore the main outcome of the inquiry? That is not community engagement; it is utter contempt and an insult to the majority of Victorians!
Glynn Jarrett
Ravenswood South