--- Paul Taylor
Not me directly, but as bad as. I have 30 6th formers taking exams and in this age of league tables and value added, if they do poorly, I get the wagging finger of doubt.
This really does piss me off. Leagues tables mean absolutely nothing in terms of good teaching quality. There was an interview with the headmaster of the primary school that came bottom of the recently-published league tables, on BBC Radio4. He was rather annoyed that his school has been "named and shamed" like this. So what if he came bottom? That bears nothing on the teaching ability of the staff. There's plenty of other factors that are considered, such as the funding of the school. Heck, it was a tiny primary school... What I like even more is that prior to OFSTED looking around the school, all the teachers are running around like headless chickens, desperately trying to pull the wool over the inspectors' eyes. It's pathetic. OFSTED should just turn up, and look around on a typical day... then see what happens. Of course, I realise that that is only one facet to the overall metric that OFSTED use in determining where on the league table to put the school, but even so, the league table does absolutely nothing in helping anyone determine what the school's ability to _teach_ is like. -- Thomas Adam ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com