On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 22:33, Colin McQueen wrote:
MJ Ray
wrote: On 2003-12-02 21:16:48 +0000 Colin McQueen
wrote: You see its this judgmental attitude that gets my back up.
Ian's in the field still. He's ever likely to be more frustrated than those of us who aren't. I'm still in the field of teaching with and supporting people who have to make decisons and I've yet to meet one who did not want to make the right decision. We have the people we have to work with. I doubt Ian would call the person a clueless minion to their face, so why here?
Because it best described in a few words the situation. The minion wasn't the problem. That person might have been wonderful in other aspects of the job but was totally inappropriately assigned to a task that was beyond them. If I was being judgemental I would be calling for the head of the boss who did the assigning and was passing the buck. There are many well meaning people in the world but the harsh reality is that incompetence costs someone somewhere. A child his/her education or the nameless teacher on the dole who can't get a job because someone else is in it that doesn't want to know. These are difficult issues but taking the easy way out by not confronting the difficult decisions is not an answer.
Ian don't be so harsh. ;-)
I hadn't intended to be harsh about the "minion" I had intended to be
harsh about the management. They could, for example, have reacted with.
This sounds an interesting project, a first for the LEA, let's see how
we can help. This would have got them another school on board rather
than them now probably losing this and several others from the
consortium who seem similarly dissatisfied. That aspect is NMP. I just
want my client to be able to do what they want for their kids and their
community.
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ian