polar said:Sorry, am having problems getting the pdf out without to much being cut
polar said:The letter is sent out with a job application packs
Unsworth said:polar said:The letter is sent out with a job application packs
In that case applicants cannot say they have not been warned....
That said I'm really not surprised. There are very many schools, particularly in inner cities, where these circumstances are mirrored. The problem is that there is little or no incentive for 'good' teachers to join schools of this nature.
It's my view that if a school is 'challenging' the teachers should be paid some sort of additional allowance. In the end if this attracts gifted teachers and the school 'improves' as a result then it's an all round win-win. The Local Authority won't have to spend so much time, money and extra resource in resolving issues, the local community benefits and so do the staff.
And I write this as a Chair of Governors to one school and a member of two other Governing Bodies. The key to this is a really good Head and an enthusiastic and involved Governing Body.
EX_REME said:Unsworth said:polar said:The letter is sent out with a job application packs
In that case applicants cannot say they have not been warned....
That said I'm really not surprised. There are very many schools, particularly in inner cities, where these circumstances are mirrored. The problem is that there is little or no incentive for 'good' teachers to join schools of this nature.
It's my view that if a school is 'challenging' the teachers should be paid some sort of additional allowance. In the end if this attracts gifted teachers and the school 'improves' as a result then it's an all round win-win. The Local Authority won't have to spend so much time, money and extra resource in resolving issues, the local community benefits and so do the staff.
And I write this as a Chair of Governors to one school and a member of two other Governing Bodies. The key to this is a really good Head and an enthusiastic and involved Governing Body.
Yes, lets reward "challenging" schools and leave the ones that are doing well eh?
A little more thought is needed here I think.
EX_REME said:But if you "move" the gifted ones then maybe the schools you "move" them from will go downhill?
I agree with most of what you are saying but it is a very complicated area.
angular said:What do you do with parents who take their kids out of school for prolonged absences to visit relatives in Pakistan? You can't deny them education once they get back, and if the parents don't care, what then? I can't think of a sensible answer.
For at least the past ten years children in schools have been the subject of a vast and doomed series of social experiments.