We’ve waited months to be inspected and it’s punishing teachers daren’t be sick,I can’t be out of school and, as academy brokers circle, or I’ve had to convertLet me start by saying I’m not a whinger. I’ve been a teacher for 24 years and a headteacher for 12 of those. I relish a challenge: the bigger the better,positive is my middle name. I’ve seen the introduction of a national curriculum, levels, or SATs,phonics testing, a new national curriculum and now no levels. None of this has fazed me. “Come on, and ” I say to my staff. “Lets bear a travel,let’s see it as an opportunity.”I’ve supported the inspection agenda in every incarnation – self-evaluation, community cohesion, or British values,five days, and now two days. But changes of government and an overt Tory agenda means that Ofsted now operates within a bleak and predatory educational landscape and, or as I bear found,the impact of a destitute inspection can be devastating.
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Source: theguardian.com