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June 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Laura Clark
18:42 EST, 12 June 2012
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18:42 EST, 12 June 2012
The number of failing schools has leapt 50 per cent under a back-to-basics inspection regime.
One secondary school in seven has been branded ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted because of poor teaching and under-achievement by pupils.
Nearly one primary in ten has also been given the watchdog’s lowest rating.
A number of high schools are being branded as ‘inadequate’ with teachers also been warned
The schools were inspected under a tough regime introduced in January to stop weak head teachers bumping up ratings by concentrating on ‘peripheral’ areas such as pupil well-being, spiritual development and community cohesion.
After Coalition reforms, schools are now judged on just four key areas – teaching, pupil results, behaviour and leadership.
Figures on 1,964 inspections in the first three months of the year show more than half of secondaries – 53 per cent – missed out on a ‘good’ rating.
Thirty-nine per cent were merely ‘satisfactory’ – and considered to need improvement – and 14 per cent were ‘inadequate’.
Nearly half the inadequate schools were put into immediate ‘special measures’, forcing them to take action to improve or face closure.
The investigations highlighted serious concerns for primary school children
The rest were given ‘notice to improve’, requiring them to agree a schedule for significant progress to avoid a ‘special measures’ verdict.
‘GIRLS CAN HAVE IT ALL’ IF THEY READ BOOKS
A generation of girls is in danger of losing ‘mental discipline’ as smartphones and computers distract them from reading whole books, warns a schools leader.
Helen Fraser says girls can ‘have it all’ – if they switch off their electronic gadgets and read books from start to finish.
She will use a keynote speech to the Girls’ Day School Trust today to warn that the culture of relying on the internet for instant answers risks ‘infantilising’ education.
Mrs Fraser will tell the annual conference of the GDST: ‘I’m a firm believer in the importance for our students of switching off the computer, the radio, the smartphone, the TV, and any other distractions, and reading a whole book.
‘To be successful at university and throughout your career, girls need to invest their time in learning. Without the ability to gain in-depth knowledge of a subject, they will struggle truly to influence the world.’
Mrs Fraser, who oversees 24 independent schools and two academies as chief executive of the GDST, will also say girls should be encouraged to choose husbands who are prepared to share the load at home.
She will suggest that women do not face a ‘glass ceiling’ so much as a ‘nappy wall’ if they choose to have children and a career.
Elsewhere in her speech, Mrs Fraser will call on schools to consider capping the number of GCSEs pupils take, saying that university admissions tutors may not be any more impressed by 11 GCSEs than they are by nine or ten.
The picture contrasts with inspections
during the last three months of the old regime, when 9 per cent of
secondaries and 6 per cent of primaries were judged inadequate.
Just 6 per cent of secondaries and 5 per cent of primaries inspected since January were given the highest rating of ‘outstanding’, with 41 per cent of secondaries and 51 per cent of primaries judged ‘good’.
Thirty-four per cent of primaries were rated satisfactory.
The latest results are partly down to more frequent visits to under-performing schools.
But Ofsted said inspectors were also paying closer attention to the core work of schools, ‘spending more time in classrooms observing the quality of teaching and looking in detail at the difference schools are making for pupils’.
Previously, schools were judged against an array of more than 20 politically correct targets, such as ‘the extent to which pupils adopt healthy lifestyles’.
Heads were required to rate themselves against the targets by filling in a ‘self-evaluation’ form.
Pressure on schools will intensify in September with further reforms to inspections being ushered in by Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw.
The satisfactory grading will be rebadged as ‘requiring improvement’ and outstanding judgments will be harder to achieve.
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: ‘We are now in our sixth inspection regime, with a seventh due this September .
‘Every change introduces new mistakes as inadequately trained and ill-prepared inspectors make hasty judgments.’
Nick Gibb, the schools minister, said: ‘All schools should be providing an outstanding education.’
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***——“I’d be amazed if 1 in 7 state schools were good.Poorly-qualifed teachers, incompetent heads, dumbed-down exams and ” teaching to the test” means that very little that could be described as education goes on in most schools or has done for some years.
– Kate Evans, Nottingham, England”——– The voice of an expert…
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I am not surprised at all, considering the amount of holidays the schools have, with various days off for this, and days off for that. The kids only go to school for a few weeks at a time before there is yet another holiday for something or other. I can’t remember having had so many days off when I went to school. So red tick me, but it is true.
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DM HERE YOU GO AGAIN…….YAWN YAWN YAWN!!!!
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Ofsted in schools is not teacher bashing but a necessary tool because teachers refuse to acknowledge that they are often/sometimes not up to the job …. they are not the protected species they think they are and mostly children get one chance at education so ineffective/ bad teachers need to be sorted out!
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I was an ‘outstanding’ teacher in an ‘outstanding’ school. I loved my work. Even though I am retired, someone recently commented that I obviously still missed it. However, nothing would drag me back into the classroom which is now nothing more than a political battleground. Politicians have for too long attacked teachers for their failure to achieve certain standards, yet the teachers were trying to implement faulty concepts from those politicians. As soon as teachers feel that they are starting to understand the latest initiative it is removed and the opposite put in place. More and more schools will struggle because Ofsted has given up moving the goal posts in favour of a game of hunt the goal posts. My message to politicians and Ofsted is stop playing with our children’s future. Let teachers teach. Stop expecting teachers to be Jack-of-all-trades.
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This is just playing with language, in fact making it meaningless. Since when was ‘satisfactory’, unsatisfactory? You cannot be ‘good’ unless you are ‘better’ than some other person or school.
While every school like every person can always find ways of improving what they do, using labels like ‘failing’ does nothing to change the situation.
It reminds me of the education minister who once stood up and condemned schools for the fact that 50% of students were ‘below average’.
With OFSTED and education ministers functionally illiterate and innumerate, what hope is there for our children?
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Ofsted should be harsh as there are older teachers failing our kids and bleeding the system. I recently had an interview were the head said he would of employed every candidate. It was that hard to choose from. – plasticblonde, Liverpool. ‘he would of…’ and you’re an outstanding teacher?
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Ofsted is not teacher bashing it’s
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A head teacher working for OFSTED recently visited the school where my daughter teaches. The woman tried to mark the school down from outstanding to excellent. It turned out that her school in another part of London never achieved above satisfactory. How about that for cooking the books.
– Lc, London, 13/6/2012 07:10
As there isn’t an ‘excellent’ banding, I’m inclined to disregard your post.
More teacher bashing. Sigh. There are a huge number of schools doing an excellent job, any chance of focussing on some of these for a change? Michael Wilshaw is spearheading a very combatitive and demoralising campaign against teachers; it would be nice to see the media question this a little more rather than this rather lazy journalism that seems endemic.
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And yet now we are getting a new generation of teachers who were educated in the Blair years. What hope is there?
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