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We love Queensland teachers and hope their strike wins them the world

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I’m so proud and happy for all the teachers and educators and staff who are on strike today across Queensland.

It’s their first strike since 2009, and it’s well and truly needed.

Teaching has become a physically and mentally impossible job in this state over the past 50 years, and they deserve everything they’re asking for! (Scroll down to see the needs they’re asking for from the Qld government.)

As a student teacher (called a preservice teacher in Queensland), I was so hopeful going into my first prac this year.

But although the students were DELIGHTFUL, and the school itself was excellent, and I was receiving positive feedback from my incredible supervising teacher, I’m starting to think I may never be a teacher in this state.

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When the guides for inclusive education are not readable for people with a learning disability

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I was diagnosed with combined type ADHD about a year and a half ago, so technically, I am one of the many adult learners with a learning disability.

But even before I knew that, making learning about reading and writing accessible was one of my main passions in life.

So while I’ve been doing my Master of Teaching, I have been dyyyyyyying on the inside while trying to read all these academic texts. Almost none are written accessibly!

Academics are out here talking a great game about how we should make education inclusive and accessible to everyone … but when I read their writing, I experience true mental and physical anguish.

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