31/07/2025
Sigh….
The education system is BROKEN and what’s worse, both public and private sector pretend it’s not.
It’s a place where academic pressure outweighs psychological safety. Where learning becomes performance, not growth. Where standardized tests and rigid curricula matter more than curiosity, mental health, or joy.
Our kids are learning to survive, not to thrive. They carry the impossible weight of perfection, deadlines, comparisons, and burnout before they’ve even figured out who they are.
And the adults expected to guide them?….. Many the most amazing, compassionate dedidcated teachers are barely holding on.
Burned out. Shut down. Stripped of autonomy by top-down systems that reward compliance over creativity, and control over connection.
To all the adults who walked out of school believing they were stupid, unworthy, or “not enough” you were never the problem.
The system was and it still is!
More children in Australia than ever are being homeschooled or enrolled in alternative schools.
In 2025, over 45,000 children were registered as homeschooled.
Queensland alone has seen a 250% increase in over the past five years.
These aren’t just statistics, these are families searching for safety, for dignity, for space to honour their young perons needs.
For too many, traditional schools became environments of deep stress, exclusion, or harm.
NO! it’s not the teachers.
It’s the system.
A rigid, outdated system that fails to support their students and staff.
To those in charge: before you had letters behind your name, or a title on your desk, you were human. You too were a young person who needed kindness, patience, belief, and a space where it was safe to take risks, make mistakes and grow.
