Weak teachers the biggest problem in schools –

Ofsted

• ‘Dull and uninspiring’ lessons hold back pupils, report finds
• Child protection services hindered by staff shortages

Jeevan Vasagar – Guardian 23/11/10

Bish, Bash, Bosh

Weak Teachers are the biggest problem.

Dear old ofsted blaming teachers again.

It must be wonderful to be so one dimensionally correct.

The certititude is mind numbing.

Such a complexity, reduced to a right singularity.

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37%  Satisfactory

is ‘merely’ or worse

But it means

Fulfilling expectations or needs

acceptable, though not outstanding or perfect

Given that perfection isn’t possible

Allow satisfactory a useful place

or change it.

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We’ve been here before.

I won’t mention the name.

But the figure of

15,000

comes to mind

back in 1999

(Read Francis Beckett if you need a reminder)

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And there’s this whole teaching as a craft thing, going on

trotting off to work

with our kit bags over our shoulder

Whistling

Colonel Bogey

But we know where that led Colonel Nicholson

‘Madness Madness’

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But whither talk of a revitalised  curriculum.

The New Primary Curriculum

A Cambridge Review.

Chomping at the bit we were.

Last September.

But no.

The ConsLib Pact….

and

Since.

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A baleful silence.

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