CHAPTER 6The following week's senior staff meeting at Tui Park came to a head after another disagreement about the school's assessment policy with Val continuing her opposition to the National Standards and insisting that the system they had used over the previous few years should be continued in parallel with the new system.
Karla's argument was still that it duplicated work and should be replaced by the new system. Gillian supported her and Murray, as usual remained neutral but after almost an hour of sometimes-heated proposals he agreed with her and Gillian.
"So at the end of the year we will also change our school reports to parents to include the national standard graphs and cut out all the long written notes that tend to be flowery anyway?" Karla asked.
"They are not," snapped Val
