There was a meeting at DS' school today for potential parent volunteers. I went along because I thought it was mainly about being a parent helper on trips (eg having enough adults along to make sure all DC get off the tube at the right stop and don't leap onto the tracks, etc) but we got a moderate hard sell on the wonderfulness of being a classroom assistant, which might involve both photocopying and helping the DC who are struggling with their reading and writing.
I mentioned it on FB and a couple of people I know who are either teachers or other school staff made comments about it being not such a good thing that unpaid (and not really very highly trained) volunteers are now basically being asked to do what should be a paid TA job. Most of the friends saying oh it'w worthwhile and wonderful and all that are people who do not work in education.
AIBU to think that the ones who dislike the idea might have a point, and that it's generally a Bad Thing to expect work that would previously have been a paid and skilled job to be done by barely-trained, inexperienced free labour, however well-intentioned the individual volunteers?
AIBU?
Volunteer classroom assistants
SolidGoldBrass · 07/07/2015 21:19
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