Catholic Schools - Real Challenges

28/10/2024

Jesus is God Incarnate. *Mahomad is God Incarnate. Yahweh and Brahma/n are God Incarnates. There is only One God forever. Needs to be just One Religion for everyone, forever.
'Incarnate' means fully God and fully Human.
*Mahomad spelled this way by God in all Revelations to me, except once.
Copyright 2016-2024 Bryan W Foster

12/10/2024

What are Catholic Schools Becoming Today?
Where's the Genuine 'Catholicness' Going?
Why is There so much Emphasis on the Commercial and Business side of Catholic Education? Are Governmental Finances Seen as Priority ONE?

The Financial needs of Catholic schools in Australia have always been negotiated positively and fruitfully for all in Catholic schools' educational bodies? What has Changed for our Leaders Today?
No Schools were advantaged, whether state, Catholic, or Independent.

Why the sudden need over recent years for Catholic schools to encourage many of the older teachers to leave teaching? Yes, everyone's under various forms of pressure, some forms of which have been 'invented' over the past few years, but, please, remember which teachers got this massive, extraordinarily successful, Catholic institution to where it is now, and still do! There are several teachers who I trained with in the early days at McAuley Teachers College in Brisbane and who are brilliant, have been forced out, in a way that certainly seems to be indiscriminate.
Teachers today are required to do so much more than ever was expected or anticipated, just to be granted various forms of financial assistance for those students with special needs. The format this takes seems to be well beyond that which is needed. Instead of senior leadership in Catholic education within the archdiocese of Brisbane, it gets 'thrown' to the classroom teachers. Many of them have great difficulties sorting out the process and making it be what has been requested. Muck this part up and a caution against your permanent job may occur. Remain 'unsuccessful' in the standard of the senior archdiocesan leadership and you may lose your job. This seems to happen to some younger teachers also, but not to the level and quantity of experienced teachers.

I retired from teaching at the same time these changes were coming in. I was so fortunate not to have been caught up in this very poorly implemented policy. However, I have spoken to several teachers who started with me, and who have either been through the above process and won or lost, or who have 'thrown in the towel' simply because the process is unfair and an injustice to genuine high-quality teachers, who have been taken to the brink as the easiest way to end their employment.

It severely hurts me to say, that from all the information passed to me throughout the past few years, Catholic education seems to be taking the incorrect path.

Would Jesus have said to today's teachers, to concentrate on often poor financial policies and those implementing those policies from on high within the system, or to involve others not in the classroom. I would have thought that teachers need to TEACH much more than anything else. Catholic schoolteachers also NEED to TEACH from a Catholic justice and faith point of view. So do their overseers. There must be No injustice. There must be No limiting of faith experiences of teachers and students within each class, etc.
In closing, may I also challenge the hierarchy within the Catholic Education senior leaders. Even though these people hate the following questions, why would they if they were being honest, inspiring, and aiming for the best in each student and teacher:
How long since you have been a full-time teacher in a Catholic school?

How many years did you teach in Catholic schools?
Do you believe that time spent on the above circumstances' themes about teaching in Catholic institutions, is absolutely necessary?
If you were teaching today in a Catholic school, how would you progress with all the extra add-on expectations and policies from your leadership groups outside the classrooms?

Do you honestly believe that if any teacher cannot relate and appreciate your financial and curriculum expectations, they should receive a warning to improve, or to be given their 'ticket of leave' out of the Catholic system? What else could honestly be done with and for these teachers?

Do you see that BCE, and/or other dioceses, are becoming more corporate and commercial, in deference to what Catholic schools must be? Faith-filled, ethical, honest, authentically informative Catholic, True to God's Truth, etc.

42 years teaching in Catholic schools from years 1-12.
Leadership as a principal in two primary/elementary schools in two country schools, at Tara and Goondiwindi, in southern Queensland.
Leadership as an assistant principal RE and PC in a Catholic secondary school for 12 years. Gold Coast.
Senior school coordinator in years 11 and 12 for 10 years, Gold Coast.
Teaching Study of Religion to years 11 and 12 for 30 years, Brisbane and Gold Coast.
Deanery and Parish pastoral councils as president or secretary, Brisbane south to Gold Coast. Surfers Paradise. Oxenford/Coomera.
Primary school P and F president twice.
Bryan Foster author.

© Copyright 2007-2024 to Bryan Foster, Karen Foster, Great Developments Publishers, Gold Coast, Australia.
Bryan Foster, author, has recently completed 10 of 11 in the book series, titled: 'God Today' Series. See the titles below. Written from 2016 to 2024.

2007-2024 BY BRYAN FOSTER - AUTHOR & PUBLISHER and Karen Foster, Directors. Copyright 2007-2024 of all TEXTBOOKS, PHOTOBOOKS, VIDEOS, IMAGES, ARTICLES PUBLISHED BY GREAT DEVELOPMENTS PUBLISHERS.
​
​Bryan Foster and Karen Foster
Directors,
Great Developments Publishers
0402168911
[email protected]
[email protected]
BryanFosterAuthor.com
GodTodaySeries.com
Aldrin Ave., Benowa. Queensland. Australia
The 10-book Series titled, ‘God Today’ Series, contains the following titles. Books are available at good internet bookstores, along with various shopfront bookshops, worldwide.

Book 1. 1GOD.world: One GOD for All, (2016)
Book 2. Mt Warning GOD's Revelation: Photobook Companion to '1GOD.world', (2017)
Book 3. Where's GOD? Revelations Today, (2018)
Book 4. Where's GOD? Revelations Today Photobook Companion: GOD Signs (2nd ed) (2018). Images so genuinely UNIQUE and God-Given!
Book 5. Jesus and Mahomad are GOD (2020)
Book 6. Love is the Meaning of Life: GOD'S Love (1st ed) (2021)
Book 7. Wisdom: GOD’s Hints and Tips (2021)
Book 8. (8A and B). Love is the Meaning of Life (1st ed) (2022) Book 8. Love is the Meaning of Life (for Secular People) (1st ed) (Book 8 is an edited version of the 2nd ed. i.e., Book 6, 2021, and includes an introduction to God’s Love for the non-believer and those with doubts. It includes an introduction to God’s Love for the non-believer and those with doubts.
Book 9. Before Heaven: Hints Tips Stories (2023)
Book 10. Before Heaven: Hints Tips Stories (2nd ed) (2023)
Book 11. Draft . appr. 300 pages. Avail end 2024

21/08/2024

15/08/2024

Are Billions of People Incarnated with God Today?
As Jesus, Mahomad, Yahweh and Brahma/n were, I believe? See Revelation #15 below.
Each Being Fully GOD and Fully Human.

'GOD Today' Series. Book 11 DRAFT. Released 2025.

SEE Revelation #15 (Bryan Foster's handwritten transcription attached) from God to the Author in 2016, and transcribed by the Author, emphasised that Jesus and Mahomad, Yahweh and Brahma/n, were all Incarnated with God. Each was fully God and fully Human.

How was this message from God received? It came through a performance by 'Collabro', a UK male singing group, which had a moment within the singing of ‘Stars’ from ‘Les Misérables’ on Britain’s Got Talent in 2014, that was the key inspiration for the Author to seriously consider such a MASSIVE possibility of God’s presence with us All on Earth Today. Was this a Revelation or an Inspired Message, Something Else or Nothing?

His received message from God, was so far out of any religious and human expectations, that no commitments to the possible/probable received Revelations or Inspired Messages were made by him at that stage in December, 2022.

Much further exploration of these possibilities and how these fitted in with God’s Revelations and Inspired Messages was needed.
Time was needed to work through the beginnings of a massive, major possible/probable Revelation or IMs.

The author believes it was not his decision to be made, but he needed to inform a large section of authentic religious leaders and holy people, across as many genuine religions and religious leaders, scholars and theologians worldwide. This book’s ‘God Today’ Series, is one of the most important means of spreading the enclosed Word from God, on whatever level God may so desire, for various people and groups worldwide. God most probably has a number of other people worldwide getting the same or similar messages from him to spread these important messages for some time and worldwide.

Over the past 2 years, Bryan has been able to reflect deeply and have numerous spiritual discussions through prayer with God on the above challenging beliefs and God’s teachings.
Numerous numbers of books have been sent to many religious leaders worldwide. Many books have also been purchased around the world by all sorts of people with varying interests, religions, ages, etc. All these books are available to all people worldwide. No-one should be excluded for any reason from purchasing and/or reading.

IMAGE. #1. Fighter aircraft with two birds appearing to chase the plane and to possibly beat it to the finish mark!? Taken from the roof of the author's house with the plane heading towards Surfers Paradise, Qld. Australia.

I figuratively see the jet fighter as God who never loses anything, due to His Perfection and Absolute Love of everything He created... And the birds figuratively being all of God's Creations, especially from the animal kingdom including humans.

IMAGE #2. At 3am one night in May 2016, while I was camping on the foothills of Mt Warning/Wollumbin near Murwillumbah, NSW, Australia, God awoke me and told me to write down what he stated. I quickly found a book and pencil and transcribed what he said. Image #2 attached, shows Revelation #15, exactly as given by God. Note especially that this specifically includes Jesus, Mahomad, Yahweh and Brahma/n as followers of 1 God only. This 1 God Only NEEDS to be seen and understood as the Only One God of ETERNITY - not a different one for each religion!!!

Copyright 2024-5 Bryan W Foster, Karen M Foster and Great Development Publishers - all text and images within this Post and all other Posts from this 'God Today' group.

See 32 'God Today' Series; Marketing Catholic Schools and Churches series; along with Beginner Caravanner places to stay and things to see and do around Australia. See the books by Bryan Foster at the link below.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Bryan-Foster/author/B005DOPRMO/allbooks?ie=UTF8&useRedirectOnSuccess=1&ref_=dex_glow_signin&path=%2Fstores%2FBryan-Foster%2Fauthor%2FB005DOPRMO

02/07/2024

Book 11 of 10 (?Is this possible I hear you say?) in the 'God Today' Series by Bryan Foster, will now be released later this year, 2025. This final book in the Series, will continue to both clarify certain Revelations and Inspired Messages from God and also challenge the reader's appreciation of these Revelations (21+1or2?) from God that were mostly received in 2016, 2018, 2022/3 and 1982. While the Inspired Messages from God began when I was 15 and have continued all the way to today, and no doubt well into the future from here.

The first 10 published books in the Series have been received well from the feedback I have had. Many people have also found some of the points from God and/or explanations of these, are worth the challenge to understand, appreciate and follow these, especially for those deeply involved in discovering God as fully as possible.

All people, religiously involved or secular, (secular - those seriously questioning everything about religion and God), the more we know and appreciate God and God's ways, commands, expectations, massive support and massive forgiveness, etc. the better we feel and the better we are! And the opportunities increase massively as we become One with the One God, the One religion and the One Loving Community throughout our earthly lives.

COVER - Book 11's cover is so far looking at something incredibly different from what you may have been expecting, as done on the previous 10 books. This genuine image was taken while I stood on top of my house 10 minutes by car to Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, while the enclosed track had street racing V8 cars that roared on the streets of Surfers Paradise.

A couple of RAAF fighter jets circled the sky and racing track. This was entertainment and not war...

I see the jet as God the Most Powerful and Most Loving and Most Forgiving, etc. entity for eternity. The two birds, by sheer coincidence, flew across the line of my camera that was trained on the jet. For the purpose of this image, we see these special birds as us people. As God's People forever past and present and future. Each is seen as God's Most Loving, Most lively, Most Living Creations. Each is staying with God as much as possible, as we should be aiming to do fully!!!

Copyright 2020-5 Bryan Foster, Karen Foster and Great Developments Publishers

12/06/2024

Oh well, it looks as if my Hollywood days are over. William Bennett must have found another more worthy author to publish in film! Just for William, I'd like to list key words of support he recently gave me:

Hello, I'm a Film Agent from California, USA.

We can adapt your book into a cinematic masterpiece.

[We] turn exceptional books into visually stunning films and TV series.

Your work has caught our attention for its depth and distinctiveness

Your creativity and unique voice we love to see on screen.

Bring your stories to a wider audience through film.

Our team has a strong track record of successful adaptations.

We'd be thrilled to explore potential projects with you.

Our film representatives are genuinely excited about your book's potential for adaptation into a film.

12/05/2024

What are Catholic Schools Becoming Today?
Where's the Genuine 'Catholicness' Going?
Why is There so much Emphasis on the Commercial and Business side of Catholic Education? Are Governmental Finances Seen as Priority ONE?
The Financial needs of Catholic schools in Australia have always been negotiated positively and fruitfully for all in Catholic schools' educational bodies? What has Changed for our Leaders Today?
No Schools were advantaged, whether state, Catholic, or Independent.
Why the sudden need over recent years for Catholic schools to encourage many of the older teachers to leave teaching? Yes, everyone's under various forms of pressure, some forms of which have been 'invented' over the past few years, but, please, remember which teachers got this massive, extraordinarily successful, Catholic institution to where it is now, and still do! There are several teachers who I trained with in the early days at McAuley Teachers College in Brisbane and who are brilliant, have been forced out, in a way that certainly seems to be indiscriminate.
Teachers today are required to do so much more than ever was expected or anticipated, just to be granted various forms of financial assistance for those students with special needs. The format this takes seems to be well beyond that which is needed. Instead of senior leadership in Catholic education within the archdiocese of Brisbane, it gets 'thrown' to the classroom teachers. Many of them have great difficulties sorting out the process and making it be what has been requested. Muck this part up and a caution against your permanent job may occur. Remain 'unsuccessful' in the standard of the senior archdiocesan leadership and you may lose your job. This seems to happen to some younger teachers also, but not to the level and quantity of experienced teachers.
I retired from teaching at the same time these changes were coming in. I was so fortunate not to have been caught up in this very poorly implemented policy. However, I have spoken to several teachers who started with me, and who have either been through the above process and won or lost, or who have 'thrown in the towel' simply because the process is unfair and an injustice to genuine high-quality teachers, who have been taken to the brink as the easiest way to end their employment.
It severely hurts me to say, that from all the information passed to me throughout the past few years, Catholic education seems to be taking the incorrect path.
Would Jesus have said to today's teachers, to concentrate on often poor financial policies and those implementing those policies from on high within the system, or to involve others not in the classroom. I would have thought that teachers need to TEACH much more than anything else. Catholic schoolteachers also NEED to TEACH from a Catholic justice and faith point of view. So do their overseers. There must be No injustice. There must be No limiting of faith experiences of teachers and students within each class, etc.
In closing, may I also challenge the hierarchy within the Catholic Education senior leaders. Even though these people hate the following questions, why would they if they were being honest, inspiring, and aiming for the best in each student and teacher:
How long since you have been a full-time teacher in a Catholic school?
How many years did you teach in Catholic schools?
Do you believe that time spent on the above circumstances' themes about teaching in Catholic institutions, is absolutely necessary?
If you were teaching today in a Catholic school, how would you progress with all the extra add-on expectations and policies from your leadership groups outside the classrooms?
Do you honestly believe that if any teacher cannot relate and appreciate your financial and curriculum expectations, they should receive a warning to improve, or to be given their 'ticket of leave' out of the Catholic system? What else could honestly be done with and for these teachers?
Do you see that BCE, and/or other dioceses, are becoming more corporate and commercial, in deference to what Catholic schools must be? Faith-filled, ethical, honest, authentically informative Catholic, True to God's Truth, etc.
42 years teaching in Catholic schools from years 1-12.
Leadership as a principal in two primary/elementary schools in two country schools, at Tara and Goondiwindi, in southern Queensland.
Leadership as an assistant principal RE and PC in a Catholic secondary school for 12 years. Gold Coast.
Senior school coordinator in years 11 and 12 for 10 years, Gold Coast.
Teaching Study of Religion to years 11 and 12 for 30 years, Brisbane and Gold Coast.
Deanery and Parish pastoral councils as president or secretary, Brisbane south to Gold Coast. Surfers Paradise. Oxenford/Coomera.
Primary school P and F president twice.
Bryan Foster author.
© Copyright 2024-5 to Bryan Foster, Karen Foster, Great Developments Publishers.
Bryan Foster, author, has recently completed his 10-book series, titled: 'God Today' Series. See the titles below. Written from 2016 to 2025.
2007-2025 BY BRYAN FOSTER - AUTHOR & PUBLISHER and Karen Foster, Directors. Copyright 2007-2024 of all TEXTBOOKS, PHOTOBOOKS, VIDEOS, IMAGES, ARTICLES PUBLISHED BY GREAT DEVELOPMENTS PUBLISHERS.
​
​Bryan Foster and Karen Foster
Directors,
Great Developments Publishers
0402168911
[email protected]
[email protected]
BryanFosterAuthor.com
GodTodaySeries.com
Aldrin Ave., Benowa. Queensland. Australia
The 10-book Series titled, ‘God Today’ Series, contains the following titles. Books are available all good internet bookstores, along with various shopfront bookshops, worldwide –
Book 1. 1GOD.world: One GOD for All, (2016)
Book 2. Mt Warning GOD's Revelation: Photobook Companion to '1GOD.world', (2017)
Book 3. Where's GOD? Revelations Today, (2018)
Book 4. Where's GOD? Revelations Today Photobook Companion: GOD Signs (2nd ed) (2018). Images so genuinely UNIQUE and God-Given!
Book 5. Jesus and Mahomad are GOD (2020)
Book 6. Love is the Meaning of Life: GOD'S Love (1st ed) (2021)
Book 7. Wisdom: GOD’s Hints and Tips (2021)
Book 8. (8A and B). Love is the Meaning of Life (1st ed) (2022) Book 8. Love is the Meaning of Life (for Secular People) (1st ed) (Book 8 is an edited version of the 2nd ed. i.e., Book 6, 2021, and includes an introduction to God’s Love for the non-believer and those with doubts. It includes an introduction to God’s Love for the non-believer and those with doubts.
Book 9. Before Heaven: Hints Tips Stories (2023)
Book 10. Before Heaven: Hints Tips Stories (2nd ed) (2023)

12/05/2024

What are Catholic Schools Becoming Today?
Where's the Genuine 'Catholicness' Going?
Why is There so much Emphasis on the Commercial and Business side of Catholic Education? Are Governmental Finances Seen as Priority ONE?
The Financial needs of Catholic schools in Australia have always been negotiated positively and fruitfully for all in Catholic schools' educational bodies? What has Changed for our Leaders Today?
No Schools were advantaged, whether state, Catholic, or Independent.
Why the sudden need over recent years for Catholic schools to encourage many of the older teachers to leave teaching? Yes, everyone's under various forms of pressure, some forms of which have been 'invented' over the past few years, but, please, remember which teachers got this massive, extraordinarily successful, Catholic institution to where it is now, and still do! There are several teachers who I trained with in the early days at McAuley Teachers College in Brisbane and who are brilliant, have been forced out, in a way that certainly seems to be indiscriminate.
Teachers today are required to do so much more than ever was expected or anticipated, just to be granted various forms of financial assistance for those students with special needs. The format this takes seems to be well beyond that which is needed. Instead of senior leadership in Catholic education within the archdiocese of Brisbane, it gets 'thrown' to the classroom teachers. Many of them have great difficulties sorting out the process and making it be what has been requested. Muck this part up and a caution against your permanent job may occur. Remain 'unsuccessful' in the standard of the senior archdiocesan leadership and you may lose your job. This seems to happen to some younger teachers also, but not to the level and quantity of experienced teachers.
I retired from teaching at the same time these changes were coming in. I was so fortunate not to have been caught up in this very poorly implemented policy. However, I have spoken to several teachers who started with me, and who have either been through the above process and won or lost, or who have 'thrown in the towel' simply because the process is unfair and an injustice to genuine high-quality teachers, who have been taken to the brink as the easiest way to end their employment.
It severely hurts me to say, that from all the information passed to me throughout the past few years, Catholic education seems to be taking the incorrect path.
Would Jesus have said to today's teachers, to concentrate on often poor financial policies and those implementing those policies from on high within the system, or to involve others not in the classroom. I would have thought that teachers need to TEACH much more than anything else. Catholic schoolteachers also NEED to TEACH from a Catholic justice and faith point of view. So do their overseers. There must be No injustice. There must be No limiting of faith experiences of teachers and students within each class, etc.
In closing, may I also challenge the hierarchy within the Catholic Education senior leaders. Even though these people hate the following questions, why would they if they were being honest, inspiring, and aiming for the best in each student and teacher:
How long since you have been a full-time teacher in a Catholic school?
How many years did you teach in Catholic schools?
Do you believe that time spent on the above circumstances' themes about teaching in Catholic institutions, is absolutely necessary?
If you were teaching today in a Catholic school, how would you progress with all the extra add-on expectations and policies from your leadership groups outside the classrooms?
Do you honestly believe that if any teacher cannot relate and appreciate your financial and curriculum expectations, they should receive a warning to improve, or to be given their 'ticket of leave' out of the Catholic system? What else could honestly be done with and for these teachers?
Do you see that BCE, and/or other dioceses, are becoming more corporate and commercial, in deference to what Catholic schools must be? Faith-filled, ethical, honest, authentically informative Catholic, True to God's Truth, etc.
42 years teaching in Catholic schools from years 1-12.
Leadership as a principal in two primary/elementary schools in two country schools, at Tara and Goondiwindi, in southern Queensland.
Leadership as an assistant principal RE and PC in a Catholic secondary school for 12 years. Gold Coast.
Senior school coordinator in years 11 and 12 for 10 years, Gold Coast.
Teaching Study of Religion to years 11 and 12 for 30 years, Brisbane and Gold Coast.
Deanery and Parish pastoral councils as president or secretary, Brisbane south to Gold Coast. Surfers Paradise. Oxenford/Coomera.
Primary school P and F president twice.
Bryan Foster author.
© Copyright 2024 to Bryan Foster, Karen Foster, Great Developments Publishers.
Bryan Foster, author, has recently completed his 10-book series, titled: 'God Today' Series. See the titles below. Written from 2016 to 2024.
2007-2024 BY BRYAN FOSTER - AUTHOR & PUBLISHER and Karen Foster, Directors. Copyright 2007-2024 of all TEXTBOOKS, PHOTOBOOKS, VIDEOS, IMAGES, ARTICLES PUBLISHED BY GREAT DEVELOPMENTS PUBLISHERS.
​
​Bryan Foster and Karen Foster
Directors,
Great Developments Publishers
0402168911
[email protected]
[email protected]
BryanFosterAuthor.com
GodTodaySeries.com
Aldrin Ave., Benowa. Queensland. Australia
The 10-book Series titled, ‘God Today’ Series, contains the following titles. Books are available all good internet bookstores, along with various shopfront bookshops, worldwide –
Book 1. 1GOD.world: One GOD for All, (2016)
Book 2. Mt Warning GOD's Revelation: Photobook Companion to '1GOD.world', (2017)
Book 3. Where's GOD? Revelations Today, (2018)
Book 4. Where's GOD? Revelations Today Photobook Companion: GOD Signs (2nd ed) (2018). Images so genuinely UNIQUE and God-Given!
Book 5. Jesus and Mahomad are GOD (2020)
Book 6. Love is the Meaning of Life: GOD'S Love (1st ed) (2021)
Book 7. Wisdom: GOD’s Hints and Tips (2021)
Book 8. (8A and B). Love is the Meaning of Life (1st ed) (2022) Book 8. Love is the Meaning of Life (for Secular People) (1st ed) (Book 8 is an edited version of the 2nd ed. i.e., Book 6, 2021, and includes an introduction to God’s Love for the non-believer and those with doubts. It includes an introduction to God’s Love for the non-believer and those with doubts.
Book 9. Before Heaven: Hints Tips Stories (2023)
Book 10. Before Heaven: Hints Tips Stories (2nd ed) (2023)

14/03/2024

Religious Freedom Laws - a Massive Catholic Schools - Real Challenges
What will happen if the religious freedom laws in various countries, especially here in Australia in this example, make it illegal to not employ people with anti-Catholic beliefs or to dismiss staff who don't teach or refuse to teach Catholic theologies, beliefs, prayer, etc..

No Religious Freedoms of employment or genuine religious reasons to dismiss teachers who don't agree and fight against Catholic teachings, church laws, Catholic teachers and school leaders, etc..

10/03/2024

An image that contains a very good story about Heaven and getting there, through our personal salvation. Catholic schools need as many 'out of this world' images and stories, for students to be challenged to find God, do what God wants from them, help others immensely, and love and forgive as needed! etc..

To me, this image has two parts. The lower circular sun cloud is like an invitation and an entrance into Heaven. While the top fuller cloud suggests a compilation of huge numbers of people saved, and who are now with God in Heaven.

Can anyone see this as an image for a possible Book 11 in the 10-Book, 'God Today' Series?

Copyright 2024 text and images. Bryan Foster, Karen Foster and Great Developments Publishers.

02/02/2024

What are Catholic Schools Becoming Today?

Where's the Genuine 'Catholicness' Going?

Why is There so much Emphasis on the Commercial and Business side of Catholic Education? Are Governmental Finances Seen as Priority ONE?
The Financial needs of Catholic schools in Australia have always been negotiated positively and fruitfully for all in Catholic schools' educational bodies? What has Changed for our Leaders Today?
No Schools were advantaged, whether state, Catholic, or Independent.

Why the sudden need over recent years for Catholic schools to encourage many of the older teachers to leave teaching? Yes, everyone's under various forms of pressure, some forms of which have been 'invented' over the past few years, but, please, remember which teachers got this massive, extraordinarily successful, Catholic institution to where it is now, and still do! There are several teachers who I trained with in the early days at McAuley Teachers College in Brisbane and who are brilliant, have been forced out, in a way that certainly seems to be indiscriminate.

Teachers today are required to do so much more than ever was expected or anticipated, just to be granted various forms of financial assistance for those students with special needs. The format this takes seems to be well beyond that which is needed. Instead of senior leadership in Catholic education within the archdiocese of Brisbane, it gets 'thrown' to the classroom teachers. Many of them have great difficulties sorting out the process and making it be what has been requested. Muck this part up and a caution against your permanent job may occur. Remain 'unsuccessful' in the standard of the senior archdiocesan leadership and you may lose your job. This seems to happen to some younger teachers also, but not to the level and quantity of experienced teachers.

I retired from teaching at the same time these changes were coming in. I was so fortunate not to have been caught up in this very poorly implemented policy. However, I have spoken to several teachers who started with me, and who have either been through the above process and won or lost, or who have 'thrown in the towel' simply because the process is unfair and an injustice to genuine high-quality teachers, who have been taken to the brink as the easiest way to end their employment.

It severely hurts me to say, that from all the information passed to me throughout the past few years, Catholic education seems to be taking the incorrect path.

Would Jesus have said to today's teachers, to concentrate on often poor financial policies and those implementing those policies from on high within the system, or to involve others not in the classroom. I would have thought that teachers need to TEACH much more than anything else. Catholic schoolteachers also NEED to TEACH from a Catholic justice and faith point of view. So do their overseers. There must be No injustice. There must be No limiting of faith experiences of teachers and students within each class, etc.

In closing, may I also challenge the hierarchy within the Catholic Education senior leaders. Even though these people hate the following questions, why would they if they were being honest, inspiring, and aiming for the best in each student and teacher:

1. How long since you have been a full-time teacher in a Catholic school?
2. How many years did you teach in Catholic schools?
3. Do you believe that time spent on the above circumstances' themes about teaching in Catholic institutions, is absolutely necessary?
4. If you were teaching today in a Catholic school, how would you progress with all the extra add-on expectations and policies from your leadership groups outside the classrooms?
5. Do you honestly believe that if any teacher cannot relate and appreciate your financial and curriculum expectations, they should receive a warning to improve, or to be given their 'ticket of leave' out of the Catholic system? What else could honestly be done with and for these teachers?
6. Do you see that BCE, and/or other dioceses, are becoming more corporate and commercial, in deference to what Catholic schools must be? Faith-filled, ethical, honest, authentically informative Catholic, True to God's Truth, etc.

1. 42 years teaching in Catholic schools from years 1-12.
2. Leadership as a principal in two primary/elementary schools in two country schools, at Tara and Goondiwindi, in southern Queensland.
3. Leadership as an assistant principal RE and PC in a Catholic secondary school for 12 years. Gold Coast.
4. Senior school coordinator in years 11 and 12 for 10 years, Gold Coast.
5. Teaching Study of Religion to years 11 and 12 for 30 years, Brisbane and Gold Coast.
6. Deanery and Parish pastoral councils as president or secretary, Brisbane south to Gold Coast. Surfers Paradise. Oxenford/Coomera.
7. Primary school P and F president twice.

Bryan Foster author.
© Copyright 2024 to Bryan Foster, Karen Foster, Great Developments Publishers.

Bryan Foster, author, has recently completed his 10-book series, titled: 'God Today' Series. See the titles below. Written from 2016 to 2024.

2007-2024 BY BRYAN FOSTER - AUTHOR & PUBLISHER and Karen Foster, Directors. Copyright 2007-2024 of all TEXTBOOKS, PHOTOBOOKS, VIDEOS, IMAGES, ARTICLES PUBLISHED BY GREAT DEVELOPMENTS PUBLISHERS.

​

​Bryan Foster and Karen Foster
Directors,
Great Developments Publishers
0402168911
[email protected]
[email protected]
BryanFosterAuthor.com
GodTodaySeries.com
Aldrin Ave., Benowa. Queensland. Australia

The 10-book Series titled, ‘God Today’ Series, contains the following titles. Books are available all good internet bookstores, along with various shopfront bookshops, worldwide –

Book 1. 1GOD.world: One GOD for All, (2016)

Book 2. Mt Warning GOD's Revelation: Photobook Companion to '1GOD.world', (2017)

Book 3. Where's GOD? Revelations Today, (2018)

Book 4. Where's GOD? Revelations Today Photobook Companion: GOD Signs (2nd ed) (2018). Images so genuinely UNIQUE and God-Given!

Book 5. Jesus and Mahomad are GOD (2020)

Book 6. Love is the Meaning of Life: GOD'S Love (1st ed) (2021)

Book 7. Wisdom: GOD’s Hints and Tips (2021)

Book 8. (8A and B). Love is the Meaning of Life (1st ed) (2022) Book 8. Love is the Meaning of Life (for Secular People) (1st ed) (Book 8 is an edited version of the 2nd ed. i.e., Book 6, 2021, and includes an introduction to God’s Love for the non-believer and those with doubts. It includes an introduction to God’s Love for the non-believer and those with doubts.

Book 9. Before Heaven: Hints Tips Stories (2023)

Book 10. Before Heaven: Hints Tips Stories (2nd ed) (2023)