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April 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Sarah Harris
18:41 EST, 1 April 2012
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18:45 EST, 1 April 2012
Teachers are bribing pupils with pizza nights and fiddling test results to help their schools secure exam success, a survey has found.
Almost 40 per cent admitted the ‘overwhelming pressure’ to ensure that pupils achieve good grades ‘could compromise their professionalism’.
The poll, by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, reveals the lengths that schools are prepared to go to in order to climb league tables.
Exam strain: Both pupil and teachers are feeling under increasing pressure to do better in exams
A quarter of respondents said they gave pupils ‘rewards and incentives’ to work harder. One teacher cited organising ‘pizza nights’.
In addition, 28 per cent said they felt obliged to attend controversial exam board seminars.
The admission follows an undercover newspaper investigation that found some teachers paid up to £230 a day to attend seminars with chief examiners, during which they were advised on exam questions and even the wording pupils should use to get higher marks.
One state secondary school teacher told ATL: ‘I know of an exam meeting where it was strongly hinted which topics would come up in the exam. I was glad my school was there but I felt sorry for those that were not.’
Another said: ‘We don’t go to many exam seminars because we can’t afford it. We probably lose out to those who can.’
The union surveyed 512 teachers,
lecturers and headteachers working in state-funded and independent
primary and secondary schools, academies and colleges in England ahead
of its annual conference, which begins in Manchester today.
Some
admitted fiddling exam scores. A primary school teacher said: ‘I have
been forced to manipulate results so that levels of progress stay up.’
Pressure: Many of the primary and secondary school teachers surveyed said they felt obliged to attend controversial exam board seminars to boost results
A secondary school teacher added: ‘The school I work at definitely pushes the boundaries of exam integrity. Maintaining their “gold-plated” status takes precedence over developing the abilities of the pupils.
‘Controlled assessments and aspects of coursework are problem areas for cheating, with senior leadership driving the agenda.’
A
grammar school teacher said: ‘In some cases I end up virtually
re-writing my students’ homework to match the marking criteria, rather
than teach them my subject, French. I do this because there is simply
not time to do both.’
Eighty-eight
per cent of those polled said the pressure to get pupils through exams
prevented the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum, while 73 per
cent claimed it had a detrimental effect on the quality of teaching.
Seventy-one per cent said it affected the standard of learning.
In addition, one teacher warned that pupils are ‘close to breakdown’ with the demands being put on them during out-of-school hours and the Easter holidays.
Dr Mary Bousted, ATL’s general secretary, said: ‘With the Government’s persistent focus on tests, exam results and league tables, many teachers and lecturers also feel under enormous pressure – often to the detriment of high-quality teaching, learning and development of pupils.
‘School league tables, school banding and Ofsted inspections undermine the curriculum and do nothing to support pupils and their hard-working teachers, lecturers and leaders.’
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Well you wouldn’t expect anything else these days – no honour.
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Nope but the new accountability is a big problem! If so and so doesn’t reach their target grade set by external agency it’s your fault as their teacher. No of course it doesn’t have anything to do with parents or the child themselves!
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Teachers must be doing it for the big bonuses, platinum expenses accounts and expensive undeclared freebies… Oh wait… They’re not.
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Perhaps if Gove would measure success by progress and not exam results, teachers would not feel like they have to resort to this.
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Of course they are in the same way as bosses agree targets they can not miss for bonuses and give targets that can not be reached to staff they want shut of. .
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Good grief, what on EARTH are they thinking here? Can I say, 512 teachers is a pitiful number to offer as a representative sample and, as a member of the ATL union, I know I certainly didn’t answer this poll and that they are not even representing the views of their entire membership here. Mary Bousted’s final point – ‘School league tables, school banding and Ofsted inspections undermine the curriculum and do nothing to support pupils and their hard-working teachers’ – is one I wholeheartedly agree with, but my results and those of my students are absolutely unimpeachable, and my professional integrity has never been shaken for a second. I am livid that they would announce this in my name, and am cancelling my membership as we speak!
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