one of the major problems with education today is that teachers are not allowed to be teachers they are inundated with administration lesson plans for every lesson marking assessments and endless forms to fill out our children are assessed and assessed again but they are not being taught this rigid control dilutes the unique teaching ability of individual teachers and our children have become statistics and not learners the minister’s reassurance that the intention of the changes are firstly to simplify the administrative functions that teachers are responsible for and secondly to provide structured systemic support is encouraging the acdp has always had serious concerns with the concept and the implementation of obe and we therefore welcome these new developments thank you