Ofsted Reports: An Outdated Way Of Assessing Schools? | Loose Women
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2023
- Ofsted is under growing pressure following the devastating death of a primary school headteacher, who took her own life ahead of a school inspection report. Fellow teachers and parents have protested outside another local school that was expecting Ofsted inspectors. So, in this day and age, should it be the parents rating the schools?
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From series 27, broadcast on 22/03/23
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Recently OFSTED has been the centre of attention for the wrong reasons !!!!! Their "mafia style interrogation tactics / visits has caused one poor headteacher to commit suicide and another head teacher to resign after 28 years of running the school who happens to know every classroom and every pupil!!!! I think OFSTED really need to rethink their approach if their visits are leaving behind a trail of devastation!!
No they are not. It is one headteacher. What makes her life more important than the safeguarding needs of the hundreds of thousands of children across the country. There is no need to reform Ofsted, teachers must expect high levels of scrutiny, they are caring for our futures, if they cannot handle it, take a different career path and get out of teaching. Noone is forcing them, let those capable and willing to do the work get on with it and stop expecting to have your job made easy cause you cant do it effectively. She made a selfish decision and left behind a daughter who i believe just turned 18, if she didnt care how that would impact her own child, it makes you wonder why Ofsted had concerns surrounding safeguarding and leadership!
I left teaching because of the ridiculous unsustainable standards I was held to as a teacher. Instead, I returned to pharmacy, the most stressful health science of them all!
I was sick of working 60hrs week minimum, on dreadful pay, using my own money to subsidise the dire funding, the cripplingly over-stuffed classrooms and the cut-throat leadership.
Teachers have no ability to teach their class using their own style, creativity or with any joyful personality. There was no time to show the kids tailored teaching or compassion.
The parents all had too much say in a job they didn't understand, treating me like a wet nurse, nit a teacher. The raw disrespect parents showed me, calling all teachers "lazy" as I slogged away, unpaid over Summer, preparing fun and engaging resouces for the next year's worth of lessons.
The board of directors ran too much interference, and the head teacher was obsessed with Ofsted at the sacrifice of everything else.
I think the worst part of the job was the constant demand to document every tiny little thing. Child blinks, it needs recording. Books had to be marked in a specific way according to whatever marking scheme fad the school had bought into. And my hours were spent writing everything down. It was not a value-added task, it took me away from the kids and it meant very little to my pupils. My year 1 class had a really complex marking system involving symbols since they couldn't read comments. It took hours each day printing, cutting and gluing symbols into books. And ofc I had to train these 6 yr olds to know what the symbols meant for each type of lesson. I still had to write stuff down for the benefit of patents (who never read my marking anyway, and cared more about where lil Harry's grape box went than his progress. Stop everything, Miss and turn the class upside down looking or I'll report you to Ofsted!).
A better use of time would have been some individual extra tutoring. Obvious, no?
No!
By the end of my NQT year, I was a jibbering wreck. This did not improve with yr 2, as the goal posts were moved again, the schemes all changed, everything redesigned from scratch AGAIN. I was never able to build up yearly teaching resources (which would have saved me hours of class prep time, so I could focus more on individuals who were struggling with that lesson).
I feared Ofsted, my kids feared them too! They knew a bad inspection could see them lose their teacher. And they saw how Ofsted turned their headteacher into a raging beast of a woman who tormented them in assembly and in corridors.
The kids were even primed for the inspection by teaching them what to say if the inspectors asked them a reflective question. That was a whole lesson in itself. More valuable time wasted.
God, I miss my kids, my class... But I hated that job!
I can understand that inspections add to the challenge of teaching and of being a head teacher. Your performance is being assessed independently against defined standards. The result can affect you a lot. However, is there any evidence that the way Ofsted carried out its inspection in the case with the suicide in any way made the experience worse than it should have been? Did they keep her in a room for two hours, repeatedly asking her the same questions and refusing to let her take a rest? Did they taunt her with threats of a bad rating? Did they incorrectly record information or reach a conclusion that was clearly inconsistent with the evidence they had gathered? Would most Ofsted inspection teams have reached a different conclusion?
Or was it just that the stress of having your performance independently assessed was too much for this head teacher?
Most schools who were judge inadequate are full of great hard working teachers. I know that for fact. The way the grading of schools works is totally wrong
As a parent i absolutely support the regulation of schools, our children’s safety and development should not be put at risk because of one headteacher taking her own life. Ofsted had concerns regarding leadership and in particular safeguarding concerns. We entrust these individuals to care for our children for 7-8hours a day they must expect a very high level of scrutiny over the entirety of the school from an independent agency. We cannot allow the self regulation of this type of institution especially due to an individual headteacher taking her own life, the very fact that she took such a drastic measure over the downgrading of the school should concern us as to how the mental health of those teaching our children affects their ability to be able to properly safeguard and provide an effective education to the students. Im sorry but i think instead of vilifying the inspectors, we should be looking at the schools, the increase in mental health related issues amongst children, bullying and suicide amongst children is at an all time high and its clear most teachers are unhappy with their salaries and conditions of their employment. I appreciate they have life pressures outside of school that could also be impacting overall on how our children come out on the other side of being institutionalised in schools with people who may not be fit to educate and/or care for those in their care. I am more concerned about the kids and not the teachers, if they are not up to scratch then perhaps they ought to explore a different career not expect our children to attend schools regulated by headteachers from other schools etc. Utterly ridiculous agenda
As an ex-teacher who walked out because Ofsted fueled 99% of teaching and funding problems, I think you need to undetstand more about the system.
A poor ofsted report results in less funding for the school. This impacts your kids directly. Year on year, this cripples a school, who cant attract or retain good teachers.
The ofsted system is a broken one, but you demonstrate poor understanding of regulation by thinking that any self-governed system is a bad one. Many options lie in-between.
And yes, your comment is harsh, lacks compassion and puts short term gains ahead of long term solutions. Short-sighted ideas such as 'sticking to the established system' not only presents ethical dilemnas, but is a continued race to the bottom with no genuine improvements.
I agree with you.
You don't even need to watch the clip to know the usual suspects on this show will be wanting to cancel everything.
A head teacher who can't take an inspection, has no place being a head. If they shrivel up into a ball and contemplate suicide, they are too weak to lead. They also know their school isn't up to scratch and that is on their watch.
If you are failing at a job, you need to leave and find another job.
Absolutely.