Queensland school students will sit NAPLAN across the state this week, renewing calls for the census literacy and numeracy test to be cancelled altogether.
The Queensland Teachers Union has put out a press release encouraging parents to withdraw children from the test, saying it's not compulsory and parents shouldn’t feel obligated to force their children to sit the exam if it’s not right for them.
The QTU recently ran an internal member survey with over 47,000 respondents which showed overwhelming support for the test to undergo a major overhaul or to be scrapped altogether.