To send my son to an inadequate school?

[dollyplumislotsoffun]

We are soon moving house to a small new development of about 30 family sized homes. Straight opposite is the village primary school. The school is newly built replacing the old primary in the village. Ofsted deemed it inadequate in its recent inspection and subsequently now has a new headteacher and special measures. My son is due to start nursery there in September. Do I continue and hope they turn it around in the next year or two? I'd really like him to be at the local school with the children who live near by, but equally I'm a bit concerned about it being a bit crap...

My child's school went from good with outstanding features after a new head took over and rapidly improved it, 2 years later straight into special measures. Same head and alot of the same teachers are still there now. They are now improving all the record keeping and various other ludicrous hoops Ofsted want to see in order to improve. The staff have had alot of training as a result. But they were always good teachers but focused more on teaching and the children enjoying school than tick boxes. Now I assume they are doing both. I wouldn't let it put you off if you like the school and the way it's run when you look round. Ofsted massively changed the assessment criteria and this has made a big difference.

All that special measures means is that that a school gets massive support thrown at it. In some circumstances its the best thing that happens to a school.

tobysmum77 If a headteacher or governors require replacement due to a safeguarding issue then do you not think it a good that a school is given extra support in the interim. Losing a headteacher can cause a school to collapse academically. If there is only one issue causing serious concern then the school will be back to good very quickly.

Special measures is not a death sentence for a school.

It isn't no reallytired but unfortunately it isn't just about 'extra support', children leave, the school gets a bad name, the school is forced to become an academy abd has only very minimal choice in who takes over. Lucky schools (like my dds, decent sponsor, good luck) can come back out of it, but there is no guarantee it won't be damaging in the long term for many.

I think an ht being removed in otherwise strong management shouldn't need sm, disciplining an ht shouldn't need sm. If it's ingrained, the policies are all out and governors need to be replaced well in the current system then OK. I think that the system isn't ideal though.

Schools that are deemed inadequate are so for a reason/number of reasons and no amount of persuasion could sway me into sending my children to suck a failing school, their education means too much to me.

Safeguarding is never solely one person's responsibility. With a serious safeguarding issue then the senior management team and the governors need sacking. If the school had not required ofsted to uncover a serious safeguarding issue then the rest of the senior management and governors have failed.

It has to be remembered that schools should be aware of their shortcomings. A healthy school does not require Ofsted to manage disaplinary proceedings.

Liv I would not recommend sending your child to an inadequate school. Sadly some parents have no choice. Not all of us feel confident to home educate.