I became a Parent Governor relatively recently and have been surprised at how little communication there is allowed to be between staff and Governors. I'm increasingly getting the impression that the Head Teacher manages his staff by fear and intimidation and the staff literally seem afraid to speak their minds to him. I noticed that the staff seem quite non-communicative with the Governors too, particularly the staff governors who literally sit in Governing Body meetings and say absolutely nothing at all, ever!. But one of the other Governors (a parent Governor) e-mailed a teacher to her school e-mail address (nothing related to school business, it was a jokey thing that followed on from a short conversation they'd had in the playground) but it was intercepted by the Head (possibly he intercepts all staff e-mails?) and the Governor has been told that it is forbidden for Governors to e-mail staff. The only reason given was that staff could feel intimidated by having to communicate with Governors!!!!??? My question really is...is that normal?? Do other schools have greater communication between staff and Governors? Or is a sort of "them and us" thing imposed by the Head teacher going on everywhere?
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Governors and Teachers...do you talk to each other much??!!
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JellyBelly10 · 08/11/2010 20:21
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