Teachers who like Gove

[Skippersocks]

.....any teachers out there??? I have never seen a single post of support for him. It would be interesting to see if there are any and to hear some counter arguments.

*a close friend who was labeled a"DUMMY" at school an incapable of achieving nothing who is now a chemistry teacher with a masters.

Gove and Cummings though would say it was genetics because her sister is an Oxford Educated Barrister.*

Well, from the little you've written about her, it would seem they had a point. She obviously wasn't well taught at school.

Gosh, if Sarah is Cotwatcher, maybe her new name tells us something even MORE interesting :-)

The Free school programme has gone WAY over budget.
Several of the free schools have gone into special measures.
THere are massive shortages of places that the Gove boy's pet projects do not address.

I feel very sorry for all parents of children under 12 as their kids will be his experimental detritus

cotwatcher can you name 10 out of the 170+ Free Schools that have been set up to date, that have received an official positive assessment?

It is not the teachers and LAs who want the system to revolve around them, it is Gove. He is hell bent on having his name in the history books. Something he will achieve, but not for the reasons he was hoping.

I can't wait to see which Free School he chooses for Beatrice and William.

Out of interest cotwatcher which Free School have you chosen for you DCs?

Mum he is sending his daughter to this school, which isn't a free school but which has its own controversies.

Or, better still, let's talk about which of those policies are good for the education of children.

icecreamsoup ;-) I know that's the school they've sent their daughter to. However, if he is so passionate about Free Schools being the way forward, perhaps he'd like to demonstrate the fact.

One things for sure, it would be the most successful Free School in the country as I don't think he would be willing to gamble with his children's future as much as he expects other parents to.

I wonder where his DS goes.

Gove is making teaching almost impossible - each intervention put in place to help young people achieve decent grades he knocks over. I no of no teacher or governor that has anything good to say. Free schools are a disaster waiting to happen - no proper governance, no proper control. Sure there are good ones, but in a year or two we'll see the true effect. Right now they are crippling state schools and academies in areas with a very mixed catchment by creaming off the higher achievers leaving empty desks and funding gaps.

Every time I see Gove I think of this chap...

Arrgghh, it's late and I missed the typo of 'no' for 'know'.

He has been referred to many times in this house as 'that fish faced penis'. He is a twat of the highest order

(I am not a teacher but worked in education for over 10 years)

I may be a teensy bit jaded, but I think Gove would like to see students sat in long silent rows, accessing their Murdoch provided online learning software whilst being policed by some ex army type. Perhaps a few high IQ students will be sponsored by Boris to be taught by maths PhD graduates in order to service the financial sector. Call me in thirty years and let me know if I got it wrong. I'll no doubt be completing statistical analysis of ten thousand students I've never met waiting for my pension to kick in.