Time to cull a few more teachers?

[Rob W 0]

According to the Beeb in the last 40 years a massive 18 teachers have been dismissed for incompetence across the UK

 

time to wield a sharper axe???

[Happy Face 29]

Isn't there a shortage of teachers?

[Meenzer 14042]

Time to cull some of the pupils.

[AgentAxeman 82]

Time to cull some of the pupils.

 

 

this, and yes, there is a shortage of teachers and has been for yonks. proabably the reason why so few have been dismissed for incompetence.

[khay 8]

So that would be handy only if they do suffer from incompetence of course.

 

As my mate is looking for a job.

[Guest alex]

Time to cull some of the pupils.

And parents.

[Rob W 0]

agree on all counts

[Kitman 2188]

I think it's virtually impossible to dismiss teachers. The bads one just move from school to school every couple of years or so, like roaming wildebeest.

 

My daughter's old primary school in the UK had an appalling teacher, after 2 years of disciplinaries and written warnings she agreed to "resign" if they gave her a reference.....turns out she'd done exactly the same thing at her previous school. She was always on the sick with "stress", so the kids continually got supply teachers, wasn't any bloody use when she was in.....admitted she wasn't up to it but she knew how to play the system better than the school and the council. She strung it out for month after month, expertly supported by her union, until the school agreed to anything to get rid of her. She got her reference and moved to a school 15 miles down the road, where no doubt she is busy doing nothing.

[Happy Face 29]

I think it's virtually impossible to dismiss teachers. The bads one just move from school to school every couple of years or so, like roaming wildebeest.

 

My daughter's old primary school in the UK had an appalling teacher, after 2 years of disciplinaries and written warnings she agreed to "resign" if they gave her a reference.....turns out she'd done exactly the same thing at her previous school. She was always on the sick with "stress", so the kids continually got supply teachers, wasn't any bloody use when she was in.....admitted she wasn't up to it but she knew how to play the system better than the school and the council. She strung it out for month after month, expertly supported by her union, until the school agreed to anything to get rid of her. She got her reference and moved to a school 15 miles down the road, where no doubt she is busy doing nothing.

 

 

The only more secure job is catholic priest.

[Guest alex]

Dismissing shit teachers is about as easy/difficult as getting the decent ones to remain in the job of their own accord.

[midds 0]

Dismissing shit teachers is about as easy/difficult as getting the decent ones to remain in the job of their own accord.

 

Exactly. The shit ones (and there's plenty of them) know that they've got the ace up the sleeve in claiming stress if they going gets hard. Their contract protects them unequivocally, sort of like a Get out of Jail free card they can play anytime they want. The doctors will sign them off for months at a time and the school has to bend over backwards to re-ntegrate them back into work.

 

The Head can try to manage them out but it's very rare. The usual way shit teachers leave their jobs is when they lose the plot and start dragging a kid about. That's immediate ground for suspension and dismissal.