...if it featured 'people who agreed schools must close to 'save lives' during the pandemic no matter the cost to pupils' and 'teachers insisting OFSTED should no longer carry out inspections'..?
I bet it'd be a perfect circle:
Ofsted has been urged to halt all school visits after a headteacher killed herself over a critical inspection, prompting an education union chief to warn her tragic death must act as a 'watershed moment'.Now, someone who kills herself over what anyone else would regard as a concerning but ultimately trivial work matter has a lot of other issues (anyone think top cops will be reaching for the pills today? No. Me neither..), but will the 'if it saves one life!' crowd even listen to reason?
Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, is now urging all policymakers to listen to the 'important' message from Mrs Perry's family regarding their determination that 'something like this should never happen again'.
Maybe instability and impulsive behaviour runs in her family?
It comes after Mrs Perry's sister Professor Julia Walters called for schools to 'boycott Ofsted' and revealed that her sister had experienced the 'worst day of her life' during the Ofsted inspection.
Ah. Clearly, because no-one would call for such a thing if they were in their right m...
Similarly, Flora Cooper, executive headteacher of the John Rankin Schools in nearby Newbury, Berkshire, yesterday said she will refuse to let Ofsted in the building during a planned visit today and called on other schools to do the same.
Blimey, it's spreading! Sack her. And anyone else who threatens this, before this hysteria spreads any further. You know it makes sense.
The civil service really is taking over, isn't it
ReplyDeleteIn the run up to an Ofsted inspection some years ago, the head announced to the assembled staff that " we are to be visited by a bunch of failed teachers ". There were no arguments!
ReplyDeleteThe enshittification of education continues apace.
ReplyDeleteI've had dealings with Ofsted. I wouldn't want to let the bastards in, either, frankly.
ReplyDeleteFor years (decades) they've been working assiduously to remove any vestige of [sharp intake of breath! The horror] 'meritocracy' in schools for the children, giving awards, certificates and accolades for simply ‘being preset’ (with special attention being made of the favoured ‘demographics’, whilst, of course, vilifying and punishing, drugging or just having arrested, any child, especially male, who dares to show independent ability – the toxic scum).
ReplyDeleteIt’s just ‘so’ unfair that ‘they’ have to be subjected to even the pretence of being judged. Can’t Ofsted just award all of them top marks too? (It's not as if Ofsted doesn't already make it all up depending on how woke they are).
"Maybe if we hyperventilate, hold our breath (till our faces match our dyed hair colour), stamp our feet and pretend not to let them in (a public building), ‘daddy’ will give us the pony we always wanted (and deserved, definitely deserved)?"
I'd say 'teachers' like this are poster-children for why society is failing before our eyes, except ... maybe 'parents' who cheerfully hand their children into the clutches of these harpies are the real ones.
"The civil service really is taking over, isn't it"
ReplyDeleteIt always did!
"There were no arguments!"
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"I've had dealings with Ofsted. I wouldn't want to let the bastards in, either, frankly."
We all have to do things we don't want to do in our day jobs.
"I'd say 'teachers' like this are poster-children for why society is failing before our eyes, except ... maybe 'parents' who cheerfully hand their children into the clutches of these harpies are the real ones."
Spot on!