This blog was started a year ago because I could not believe that there was any sense in replacing three perfectly good schools with an unproven model of a single Academy school. I could also did not believe how ill conceived and badly organised those behind the idea were.
What I hadn't known at that time was how incompetent people can occupy well paid positions of power.
True they have replaced the three schools with one but in doing so they created a dysfunctional school that fails staff, pupil, parent and what is euphemistically called the 'wider community' on every level.
Some members of staff are working to deliver some sort of education for their charges but how much longer can they go on before they put their own well being ahead of their careers?
After a few requests to keep something open for people to share comments and discuss them seen as how the Evening Mail is heavily censored and adds the same comments to every new piece of Academy propaganda... here it is.
Can It?
I know I said there would be an end but on occasion I come across things that I cannot believe and although this is definitely not Academy related I cannot get my head around it.
And now the end is near...
A post I have nicked from a blog I follow daily.
Comes this story which very succinctly shows what is happening in our state schools even though the post features an American college...
This is a perfect example of what is wrong with Britain's education system, in my humble opinion.
Thanks to commenter Eric I took a tootle over to TES jobs and lo and behold I found...