It seems like there might be issues of process in this case, so that’s a bit different to the other recent ones, but wanting to make it so that safeguarding failures aren’t an automatic Inadequate is a strange hill to die on.
“How dare you check that we are keeping your children safe”
So I guess this is what happens when you have a policy in making schools run like private businesses by taking them from local educational authority control and creating academies – they start to behave like private businesses protecting their own interests.
About 10% of all schools are currently graded as “inadequate” in the UK for one reason or another.
That’s a hell of a lot of Leopards wandering about looking for a face to eat.
>Schools do not get to see the information on which inspectors base their judgements, making it hard to challenge the findings.
This is an interesting point.
Every audit I’ve been in has a standard you’re measured against and then you can see where you’re meeting or not meeting it.
I don’t agree with suggestions to scrap the inspections, but it should be a clear and transparent process.
How is this court case being paid for. From the school budget that they claim is never enough? The teachers next pay rise, which they claim in never enough? Whip round from the parents?
The mind boggles
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Talk about gaming the system ignores the motivation for this…league tables.
League tables were gamed by the police when they went for motorists because initially no differentiation was given.
The whole UK system is the problem. Schools are not businesses. Businesses fail… Schools shouldn’t be set to fail. Any system that does this fails the children of the nation.
Politicians, many of them, tend to send their kids to private schools. Clearly they don’t care. The UK should be more like Finland, can’t set up fee paying schools so their politicians make damn sure all the schools are good.
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It seems like there might be issues of process in this case, so that’s a bit different to the other recent ones, but wanting to make it so that safeguarding failures aren’t an automatic Inadequate is a strange hill to die on.
“How dare you check that we are keeping your children safe”
So I guess this is what happens when you have a policy in making schools run like private businesses by taking them from local educational authority control and creating academies – they start to behave like private businesses protecting their own interests.
About 10% of all schools are currently graded as “inadequate” in the UK for one reason or another.
That’s a hell of a lot of Leopards wandering about looking for a face to eat.
>Schools do not get to see the information on which inspectors base their judgements, making it hard to challenge the findings.
This is an interesting point.
Every audit I’ve been in has a standard you’re measured against and then you can see where you’re meeting or not meeting it.
I don’t agree with suggestions to scrap the inspections, but it should be a clear and transparent process.
How is this court case being paid for. From the school budget that they claim is never enough? The teachers next pay rise, which they claim in never enough? Whip round from the parents?
The mind boggles
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Talk about gaming the system ignores the motivation for this…league tables.
League tables were gamed by the police when they went for motorists because initially no differentiation was given.
The whole UK system is the problem. Schools are not businesses. Businesses fail… Schools shouldn’t be set to fail. Any system that does this fails the children of the nation.
Politicians, many of them, tend to send their kids to private schools. Clearly they don’t care. The UK should be more like Finland, can’t set up fee paying schools so their politicians make damn sure all the schools are good.