I attended a how-do-we-make-schools-better seminar the beginning of last week. The problem IMHO is that governments don't value education themselves. They say they do, but education is always the first on the chopping block for spending cuts. Our group facilitator was not happy when we emphasized teachers can't do their jobs if they never know if they'll have enough money to do their job (or even have a job). And they certainly can't do the job they were hired to do if they don't have the support of ancillary agencies. Seriously, we have one mental health worker for our 4 local school districts. We don't need education reform--we need an entire societal reality check. It does take a village to raise a child.
One parent at our table was convinced teachers had a free ride, with 6 hour-a-day workdays and 2 months paid vacation time. He changed his song pretty quickly. One of our teacher reps went into school at 6:15 that morning to prepare everything her sub would need for the day. Other reps were reviewing report cards on the 2-hour drive to the seminar.
there is a new chief of Ofsted who believes that a Principal or Head is "doing something right" if someone tells them that staff morale is at an all time low
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Date: 2011-12-14 07:10 pm (UTC)One parent at our table was convinced teachers had a free ride, with 6 hour-a-day workdays and 2 months paid vacation time. He changed his song pretty quickly. One of our teacher reps went into school at 6:15 that morning to prepare everything her sub would need for the day. Other reps were reviewing report cards on the 2-hour drive to the seminar.
there is a new chief of Ofsted who believes that a Principal or Head is "doing something right" if someone tells them that staff morale is at an all time low
What the everloving...?