Our Educational Learning Curve Is Dropping
Does anyone else have a dread of the recent announcement that parents will be able to call in the Ofsted team into a school?
Considerations;
- Have we slumped to the point that parents have to act as the police force when Ofsted are surely charged as the invigilator?
- Have Ofsted lost their “bottle”, concerned at the frequent condemnation they receive from teachers?
- Is the Ofsted approach key to the failing achievement by placing restrictions on otherwise entrepreneurial schools?
- Should Ofsted be renamed Onsted to identify the problem and then provide the extra resource correct it?
- How would a school react to having a team of Ofsted inspectors called in by parents? Functional perhaps but hardly conducive to a mutually positive relationship.
- And how would parents react to the fact they have had to push the button in the first place?
- Is the control of our failing educational standard in the wrong hands? Should we empower the best teachers to set the best policies?
- Occasionally we need gamekeepers to look after the game. At the moment we may be guilty of being knee deep in poachers.
- And how do we explain to the next generation of children that we should have tried harder.
Alistair Owens Keen2learn
