Not having a teacher at all!

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Who do you complain to if you child is only being taught by an HLTA.
Headteacher just says if you don't like it there's plenty more schools!
I'm not impressed at all it's been almost 4 months and surely it's not supposed to be that long.
I have read it's supposed Eve a short term cover not a whole maternity cover.

I think if you know the school, you don’t. Great schools often have great staff and low turnover. Staff alone don’t put a school into RI! If school is good and outstanding in the categories, then a staff that gels is almost certainly working well and happy overall.

It’s generally inevitable a school that’s Inadequate has unhappy staff and staffing turbulence is often a big issue. but this is absolutely not the case in all schools and many are well run.

I agree with pp's. You've done yourself no favours by listing this is an education. Blaming it on HLTA, it's really an SN issue and the fact the Senco has left and your son is not being supported properly.

You need to address that properly through the proper channels. and you know this, so I don't know why you've started a thread under the wrong thread title.

We are in Scotland. It is commonplace for an HT to take a class. Ours does so once weekly, as does the other schools in our town.

Yup.

My penultimate HT used to teach on a regular basis. Kept him in touch with the kids, apart from anything else. This HT got a very good report from HMIe and then retired.

By contrast, my last (permanent post) HT was so useless that when a one person dept teacher was absent, he refused to grade the internal assessment that the teacher had left for a class, even though it was his own subject. (Teacher was off with a planned but necessary operation and had gone above and beyond - had left work for all classes.)

HT sent a depute to take the assessment to the teacher's house, where they were recovering from a major op...Teacher's partner handed it right back to the depute.

That particular HT also retired, but for quite different reasons.

I've already stated I was frustrated by it all.
And to be fair my child should be educated by a qualified teacher when every other class has at least a teacher and Ta 🤷‍♀️.
He's stuck with me now anyway so at least that's one less pupil for the HLTA to deal with 👍🏻

I know this is true but that’s mainly where they come in a pick up whatever sickness cover in needed or teach some lessons. A qualified teacher isn’t going to be covering a whole maternity leave and all the associated work of that for half the pay they could get down the road. Logically it doesn’t make sense.