{"id":32666,"date":"2018-06-07T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=32666"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:40:07","slug":"school-of-the-air-celebrates-60-years-and-a-vision-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/school-of-the-air-celebrates-60-years-and-a-vision-of-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"School of the Air celebrates 60 years and a vision of independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/School-of-the-air.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32668\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/School-of-the-air.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/School-of-the-air.jpg 450w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/School-of-the-air-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-05-23\/calls-for-school-of-the-air-to-become-independent-sa\/9779028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a> vi Kim Elliott)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"first\">Parents of children in South Australia&#8217;s outback are calling for the state&#8217;s School of the Air to become independent so it has more control over how students learn.<\/p>\n<p>The school at Port Augusta in the state&#8217;s north has marked its 60th anniversary of delivering lessons to students in remote areas.<\/p>\n<p>When the school began in 1958, lessons were given via high frequency (HF) radio, but are now done over the internet.<\/p>\n<p>In 1991, the School of the Air amalgamated with the SA Correspondence School to become Open Access College, which is based in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>At a recent meeting in Port Augusta, the Isolated Children&#8217;s Parents&#8217; Association called for the School of the Air to become an autonomous education provider.<\/p>\n<p>The association&#8217;s north-west branch president Lynly Kerin said it was &#8220;no longer beneficial or manageable&#8221; for the school to be part of the college, and that its 49 students were being overlooked in the college&#8217;s cohort of 5,600 students.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Kerin said the School of the Air community felt &#8220;overshadowed by decisions being made by people who may not understand the needs of our kids out here in remote areas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the very least, we request that the Minister look at an investigation into the change that we&#8217;re proposing,&#8221; she said.[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-05-23\/calls-for-school-of-the-air-to-become-independent-sa\/9779028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading at ABC News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: ABC News vi Kim Elliott) Parents of children in South Australia&#8217;s outback are calling for the state&#8217;s School of the Air to become independent so it has more control over how students learn. The school at Port Augusta in the state&#8217;s north has marked its 60th anniversary of delivering lessons to students in remote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5984,3,305,288],"tags":[912,887,1664,7093,7094],"class_list":["post-32666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-abc-news","tag-australia","tag-kim-elliott","tag-port-augusta-school-of-the-air","tag-school-of-the-air"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8uS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2271,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/mario-monti\/","url_meta":{"origin":32666,"position":0},"title":"Berlusconi chased women, Monti chased DX","author":"Thomas","date":"November 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Kim Elliott via ABC) Italy's Mario Monti, the sober economist nominated to replace the larger-than-life Silvio Berlusconi, is a former European commissioner who is markedly different from the outgoing premier. 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