Down Under

I was reading this interesting report on schooling in Australia, from about 20 years ago. Educational researcher Peter Kell summarises it thus:

Curriculum planning was linked to financial cycles, while the initial concerns about genuine educational qualities shifted to concerns about auditing school performance, thereby making the participation of community and teachers very difficult. The cycle of financially-driven curriculum planning intensified teachers' work, proving to be onerous and time-consuming and revealing the serious lack of adequate resources to meet the government's political and economic objectives. Further, teachers were not assisted by other government policies designed to restructure and destructure workplace entitlements and industrial relations by aligning these with the 'international standards' framed by neoliberal globalism.

My first response to this was, "Surely this piece of writing can be re-shaped into shorter sentences? The jargon level must be reduced."

My second response to this was, "Wow, sounds like life was bad for a whole bunch of people."