Right Pulse

Further evidence that Rudd is the most unintelligent ill-prepared PM in living memory. Parents at an inner-city Sydney school want to hand back Rudd’s education ‘revolution’ money because they don’t think spending $2.5m in tearing down 4 perfectly good classrooms and rebuilding them – as demanded by the NSW government –  is value for money:

The school’s initial application was to build two covered outdoor learning areas, returf the oval to remove asbestos and refurbish an existing block of four classrooms.

The NSW Education Department knocked back the request, saying the BER timetable was too rigid to make changes. The school was told it had to demolish the building of four classrooms and would have enough money only to build another block of four.

…the department’s solution for rising student enrolments was to take over the music room or the Italian room, which would be unpopular in an area with a large Italian community.

Like something out of Little Britain – ‘Computer says no’. Parents are learning what Rudd’s education revolution is all about: window dressing problems with lots of money and telling local people – via Big Government – to shut up. Tony Abbott’s idea of having local boards run local schools and hospitals makes more and more sense. Rudd sees government as the solution to problems not the problem in and of itself.