Fee-charging schools do not need to worry about Michael Gove. Think on that.
What a fascinating parallel universe he and his party inhabit, in which, well, anything at all that one might associate with schools, only goes on in the commercial sector. Sport. Music. Reading. Everything.
The setting of lines, for example.
Now, whether or not that is a good thing, it is not the province of school governors, or of the councillors on a Local Education Authority, or of the Secretary of State.
It is a matter for the professional judgement of the teacher and of the Head Teacher.
And no one deserves to be subject to the discipline of the comically misnamed David Laws. The detention deserved by that common thief is detention at Her Majesty's pleasure.
You stupid man. Your boring predictable anti-Gove stuff shows how little you know about schools.
ReplyDeleteIf you knew any teachers in rough inner-city schools, you'd know they fear imposing punishments such as those Gove endorsed, precisely because of interference from Government and from a Ofsted which has continuously weakened school discipline and adult authority (teachers are terrified of inspectors who routinely ask their pupils about them, behind their backs) and are desperate for some political support for teachers against unruly pupils and stroppy parents.
I know teachers, besieged in rough schools, who are crying out for support for tough punishments as the "child-centred" state and "child-centred " Ofsted has too often taken the side of pupils, parents and lawyers against teachers.
Teachers and kids struggling to learn amidst louts, wil be delighted an Education Minister has come down on their side and explicitly sanctioned the use of punishments without any need to inform parents first.
Well done to Gove.
And the superior performance of private schools which dominate Oxbridge is the fault of the Labour and Tory Governments that idiotically closed grammar schools, instead of improving secondary moderns.
I have taught in schools that were rough like you cannot imagine. I was on supply. Try that.
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