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campermon wrote:

Strontium Dog wrote:Yes, I'm sure giving headteachers a little flexibility over who they employ will totally ruin the lives of children across the land. Racing certainty.

Well, by ensuring that schools are restricted to taking on qualified teachers only, we may not see more instances of this:

http://www.theguardian.com/education/20 ... functional

From which:

"The report, which has been leaked to the Guardian, says teachers at the faith school are inexperienced and have not been provided with proper training.

Pupils are given the same work "regardless of their different abilities" and the governing body is "ineffective", according to the report which was commissioned amid reports of irregularities at the school."

""Staff have been appointed to key roles for which they do not have qualifications and experience. For example, most of the primary school teachers have not taught before and the head of the primary school is experienced in teaching secondary-aged pupils only," the inspection report says.

It says that teachers' assessments of work against the national curriculum are "over-generous" and pupils are making poor progress at Key Stage 3.

Primary school teaching is characterised by "poor lesson planning" with all pupils given the same work regardless of ability. In a maths lesson pupils were "insufficiently challenged" and spent most of the 55 minutes cutting out and pasting shapes and "learned little that was mathematical"."

No doubt there are pupils at this school who are now a year behind their peers in other schools.

Also, no doubt it will be very costly to fix this free school, money that would have be better spent on employing properly trained qualified staff in the first place.