Monday 3 June 2019

Fancy That, A School That Demands High Standards!

Parents have reacted to the news that a previously outstanding school has been branded inadequate after inspectors raised serious concerns over pupil safety.
The King John School, in Thundersley, was criticised by Ofsted inspectors for not keeping the most vulnerable pupils safe or following the legal rules designed to protect them.
Hmmm, what's the problem, exactly?
Details of exactly how the school and the Zenith Multi Academy Trust which runs it, failed to protect vulnerable children were requested by the Echo, but both refused to respond.
A mystery! But wait...
Lisa Read said: "Bullying is not ‘rare’. The school need to open their eyes on all matters.
"It’s not just about achieving above average.
"The school is far too channelled into the academic results and ignore children’s wellbeing and safety."
Wait, isn't that exactly what a school should be concerning itself with?
Mary Wheeler added: "It’s a great school. They just seem to be failing those with more complex social needs.
"Safeguarding is deemed inadequate as kids haven’t been educated enough on county lines, drug dealings and gangs. This will be rectified sharpish I can assure you."
Ah. Silly me. It's not. They should be more concerned with pushing whatever agenda takes the fancy of the DoE on any given day.
Ofsted inspectors acknowledged that the quality of teaching is high, and outcomes for pupils are good, particularly at the sixth form, while the curriculum was also praised.
Seems as if this school is doing exactly what it should be praised for, not condemned.

4 comments:

MTG said...

Where would we be without Education Jobsworths spiking the curriculum? My schooldays were just damned hard work, without the diversity fun. These days one never knows when an 'O' level in making home ammunition could come in really handy.

DJ said...

It I was running that school, there have been about a six second delay between that report hitting my desk and me running down to the local print shop to get banners printed with 'failing those with more complex social needs' and 'far too channelled into the academic results' on them so I could hang them over the entrance.

Ted Treen said...

But the liberal left doesn't want academic excellence: they would much rather have social engineering to encourage victim status amongst uneducated (and therefore unachieving) youngsters. This, of course, keeps them reliant upon the 'big state' which furthers the aims of the left.

A pox on them all and a plague on all their houses.

JuliaM said...

"My schooldays were just damned hard work, without the diversity fun. "

Mine too. The good old days!

"... to get banners printed with 'failing those with more complex social needs' and 'far too channelled into the academic results' on them so I could hang them over the entrance."

Heh!

"But the liberal left doesn't want academic excellence: they would much rather have social engineering..."

Indeed. This school will now be in a lot of people's crosshairs.