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[Ithoriel]

I worked in schools as part of my "proper job" on and off and I don't see an audit as anything like an OFSTED inspection, unless you work on a call centre Hell Desk.

Good teachers are not only educators but also social workers, child psychologists, crowd control, admin staff, holiday reps and so much more.

I wouldn't do the job for considerably more than they are paid and I actually like both children and teaching and have run training courses for adults.   

[getagrip]

Shame the government doesn't share your views Ith

[Leman]

Have to agree with that Ithoriel, and I taught 36 years full time in Bootle and Litherland, finally to see my school put under the ball and chain by OFSTED. Went through four OFSTEDS - good, good, good, special measures. Mostly the same staff and certainly the same sort of kids - and the numbers passing exams had gone UP! Go figure (as our chums across the pond say).

[getagrip]

Have to agree with that Ithoriel, and I taught 36 years full time in Bootle and Litherland, finally to see my school put under the ball and chain by OFSTED. Went through four OFSTEDS - good, good, good, special measures. Mostly the same staff and certainly the same sort of kids - and the numbers passing exams had gone UP! Go figure (as our chums across the pond say).

It's too hit and miss under the current regime.  It's also too expensive.  It also doesn't make any difference to kids' results.

Waste of money: £168 million a year as it stands; that'd buy a few text books now wouldn't it?

[Tawa]

Motorists! 


My mother never worked for Ofsted......

[FierceKitty]

Have to agree with that Ithoriel....

How many Ithoriels are there? 

[Ithoriel]

How many Ithoriels are there? 

"My name is Legion and we are many" 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

OFSTED exists to make the working teachers life worse....and fell rain forests.

IanS

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Doesn't it fill you with confidence that they have just fired 1600 inspectors who were 'not good enough', since most are heads or ex heads of schools, that kind of makes the last few years results 'interesting'!

Those who can't, teach, those who can't teach become ofsted inspectors...

[FierceKitty]

Screw the whale - save the apostrophe!

[Leman]

Carrot's £1.20. What about his £1.20? Why do greengrocers never give us the rest of this story?

[FierceKitty]

A fair question.

[Techno]

It could be the punchline of one of Mr Jasper Carrott's jokes, and someone has missed out the second 't'.
(Then again......)
Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

Here's another one that's really getting up my nose. I see it everywhere particularly in the local chip wrapper, er newspaper - a singular subject with a plural verb. It just reads so wrong I don't know how anyone can write it! Example from this week's rag:

An animal welfare charity (4 words, all singular) have (plural) warned pet owners .........

The next sentence then begins:

Freshfield Animal Rescue Centre have ......... singular, singular, singular, singular, plural.

I feel  certain they would not write, 'Mr. Smith have said he does not like this.' Yet an organisation is treated as a plural, even though it is clearly a singular entity.

[Ithoriel]

I have never come across an organisation that was a singular entity in any meaningful sense, try getting a single answer to a question about process or procedure from more than one member of an organisation, for example.