At my kids' school, they have not been inspected for nearly 10 years because they were rated outstanding. Sadly, they are far from being an outstanding school these days, unless you purely look at league table results alone.
More and more parents are unhappy about their concerns being ignored, and very few complain because they know it's a waste of time. The head and chair of governors are close friends and people have experienced their children being picked on by teachers or the head, after they have complained in the past.
It's a very wealthy catchment area and the head told one parent that they needed to think carefully about whether this was the right school for their children or not because "we have some very wealthy parents".... comments like that are just the tip of the iceberg!
Some parents complained to Ofsted recently, only to be told that they would consider this at their next inspection but not before then....
Several families took their children out of the school a few months ago because of safeguarding concerns and a total lack of acknowledgement of learning difficulties, not to mention the failure to apologise for serious mistakes made by staff.
School constantly blame the kids or the parents but there is zero acknowledgement of any improvement needed within the school itself.
If Ofsted won't help and you can't complain to the governors, then who do you complain to???? What options to parents have?
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If headteacher & chair of govs are best friends, who do you complain to?
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northernlass2 · 17/06/2018 23:16
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