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Cover assistant replacing teacher long term

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anotherglass · 19/05/2016 16:48

I have just discovered an unqualified cover assistant has been taking my son's Computing class ( Year 8 ) since the beginning of the year. This arrangement is to remain in place until September, when a qualified teacher is in place.

I only found all this out by accident. There has been no communication
with parents about it.

Cover supervisors are only supposed to replace teachers for short term absences, not three quarters of the year.

This is a serious breach and I am livid!

But the school is an academy. Can they get away with this?

How can I take this further?

Thanks

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EvilTwins · 19/05/2016 17:27

Thank Mr Gove and his government.

Not sure why you're livid with the school - they can hire who they want to teach what they want. There's sod all anyone can do about it.

I'm livid too, but I'm one of the poor sods qualified teachers working the job of two, planning and marking work for classes being babysat by unqualified "supervisors" long term because of this exact situation.

urbanfox1337 · 19/05/2016 17:22

Not sure what you expect the school to do. They can't pull qualified teachers out of the air, do you actually have any facts about how or why this has happened? Given you only just discovered it, it would seem you didn't query the quality of teaching up to now, so perhaps the cover teacher is doing an ok job. Its only Y8 computing not exactly GCSE level.

noblegiraffe · 19/05/2016 17:17

Academies don't have to hire qualified teachers, there's nothing you can do.