 I think that the curriculum seems to be reasonable. It seems to be that they focus on learning the basics, which is what it's all about. The social stuff, the mathematics, the English, how to formulate your sentences and how to spell and all the basic stuff which school is all about. I am the mum to four primary school aged children who receive their education through the distance education model. I would love to see a refocus and reduction in the weight of the curriculum to allow teachers to deliver these basic fundamental foundation skills of literacy and numeracy in the classroom. The curriculum seems to be so overcrowded. I think they need to look at not only what we're teaching, how we're teaching it. My children are probably very similar to other teenagers and other parents are probably having the same struggle that I am in that my children are compliant by disengaged in their education. They don't see the relevance of what they're learning to their real life application. So they would like to have more real world skills. Part that I think needs to have some work is that the kids are told that they're doing a good job even if you're getting things wrong. So you know she will get a smiley face and a tick and that's lovely to have encouragement but in real life you don't get encouragement like that. I would love to see an alignment of the curriculum across grades to enable teachers and home tutors to stack resources particularly in composite classes, small schools and distance education settings. To begin with the foundations of literacy and numeracy and be interwoven with the social and emotional learning so our children can become great citizens in this world. Fundamentally I believe our children's education should give them the skills to be able to make informed decisions based on sound research. In a digital world of information overload where computer algorithms will often dictate the outcomes of a search say I think our kids need to have the skills to be able to identify reliable sources of information from different perspectives in order to make an informed and educated decision to make the world a better place. From my perspective the actual learning part what they're doing is fine it's just the way that they're being rewarded is probably too much. I would like my children to finish high school with a strong self-awareness. I hope my children will always question how they think, how they feel and be confidently expressing their opinions. I would like them to have a healthy sense of skepticism and complete high school with a thirst for knowledge and a love of learning. I would also like them to finish with a mindset of persistence that they are not afraid of working hard in reaching their dreams and goals. I would also like them to have resilience to be able to face challenges and difficulties and have a sense of gratitude in both successes and failures. The most important skill I'd like my kids to take with them after school is to be lifelong learners that they have a thirst for knowledge and they always want to be engaged with learning something new and progressing and improving upon themselves so that anything that they want to do in their life is available to them.