Saturday, 3 April 2010

Those Responsible

I was a governor of two schools for eight years, and we sure as hell didn't have pupils on interview panels. When did that start?
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  1. Anonymous4 April 2010 at 18:45

    It had started at my secondary school as I left, I was on the Students' Council and myself and my sixth form colleagues were the only pupils on the Council to oppose it as ludicrous... I gather the headmistress (sorry, 'headteacher') is quite the enthusiast for "progressive" teaching methods and mixed-ability setting.

    Then I went to University and had an even worse experience at the hands of the most neglectful department I had ever come across(but that's a tract off-topic).

    The student panels would ask such thrilling questions as "Can you draw us a picture of what sums you up as a person?" and "Can you show us an example of your handwriting?"

    I for one hope the NASUWT ballots to stop this nonsense.

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  2. David Lindsay4 April 2010 at 18:51

    Hear, Hear.

    Interviewing for Heads and Deputies is always by the full Governing Body, but I wasn't let loose on lower appointments, which are by panels, until I had been a governor for a couple of years and the people who had been on longer were sure about me. That was never stated, but it didn't to me. And it wasn't an age thing, it applied to everyone.

    That was as a governor, you understand. Not a pupil, a child.

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