Stop Schools Cheating Please

[twiggles]

Whatever your child is like, some primary schools and nurseries are pretending children start off at the low end, so they can pretend to inspectors of private and state schools that the child has developed only because of their teaching. If your child's advanced , some schools in rich areas take it out on the child. They won't bother giving the child attention, because the child's advanced, so they let the child coast downwards. But they give reports in writing about the child that pretend the child has started off at a low point in development and then got much better because of the teaching at the school....when the fact is the child was able to read or write when the child started at the school and as the school is giving the child little attention, the child has coasted downwards. Tha's what many schools do so they can pretend they've developed everything in the child, they want all children to be the same standard, like a photocopier. Poor children. Some teachers admit they're cheating and don't take the reports seriously and write them to impress inspectors. This is happending all over the show and I can't understand why inspectors are allowing them to get away with it. If parents start grading teachers in the school every three months the teachers won't be able to hide what's going on to the inspectors and teachers who are pretending might stop. Teachers that aren't giving inspectors the facts need to be stopped...they're not giving children an honest education.

I have no worries about the gradings that parents would give me, the school I work in has parents in commenting about teachers regularly (private international school) and I know how they feel about me.

But I will repeat my question.

Twiggles at the risk of repeating myself please can you explain to me, how will you as parent, grading me a teacher stop me from giving your child the wrong assessment. I am only a teacher and don't have the benefit of your wisdom.

I do however as a parent know I could not grade my daughter's teachers.

Still going?

Right, before I try a different track with Twiggles, I'm throwing this in. Twigs. Parents evenings. A form of consultation/discussion, even a way for parents to decide on whether they think the teacher is doing a decent job. And maybe, even, perhaps, a parent may talk to the teacher about any concerns, so the teacher understands that child better. End result? Everyone feels good. And miniature versions of this happen practically every day at drop off/pick up time. So in a way, what you're suggesting actually happens all the time.
So now, here's a question. Could you give us an idea of what questions you would ask in this grading?

Parents are cheating and lying!!
They sign their child's reading log to say they have heard them read when they haven't! Some parents admit they're cheating and don't take the logs seriously and write them to impress teachers. This is happening all over the show and I can't understand why the authorities are allowing them to get away with it. If teachers start grading parents in the school every three months the parents won't be able to hide what's going on to the inspectors, so parents who are pretending might stop. Parents who aren't giving inspectors the facts need to be stopped...they're not giving children an honest education.

clam nice try, but you lack that air of random repetitive bonkersness that the OP so effectively uses in her communications...

Still, have some for the effort.

I can do repetitive bonkersness!!

Nah, can't be bothered. Thanks for the flowers though.

BRILLIANT!!!

Hahahahaha! Don't let Gove read that...!

Are parents only going to grade primary teachers?

I'm safe then. I teach in secondary. Does that mean I can cheat?

Brilliant, Euphemia! Cheered me up this morning

Mocking from afar!!

I'm also secondary and expect some sort of grade performance criteria to be embedded into that.
Something along the lines of the NQT having to achieve A* grades (no value added nonsense here) with ALL students in an elitist exam that everyone will sit but grades cannot show inflation because then the exam will not demonstrate rigor.....

Is this thread really still going? Will it be a record if it makes it into February? Have I got time to make some popcorn?

Shipwrecked is your spelling of rigor (as in mortis) as opposed to rigour (as in Gove) intentional, or a Freudian slip? .

Me, I'm going to keep coming back until

1. The OP comes up with some evidence,
2. The thread hits 1000 posts, or
3. It's time to get started on my Christmas shopping.

I don't think twiggles will be around that long

Ha! Freudian all the way

Teachers are too lazy to spell properly btw.

Parents should be allowed to stand at the back of the class checking their spelling, that would sort it out.

The majority of the parents I know - not so much, Shipwrecked . And I'd do it, being a terrible pedant, but I have this thing called a life. Unlike the OP, or the idiot Gove.

Anyway, I think your Freudian slip was pure genius and very topical.

It's a pity there are so many teachers on this thread, who appear biased towards keeping the same old system going, afraid of feedback from the majority - parents and their children. That suggests they are afraid of what will happen if the true situation comes to light. The only way to stop teachers who are cheating from doing it is to make them accountable to the parents of the children they teach. Grading each school isn't enough. Every single teacher needs to be graded by parents, every term. Teachers who are cheating might stop if they knew they couldn't get away with it.

I'm new to this thread (I know - how did I miss it?) Twiggles, can I just check, did you just say, 'Teachers need to be graded by parents'? How on earth would that work and why would you want it?

To return to your original point, my Ds is able. His teacher differentiates work for him and his similarly fabled peers. Every parents evening I am shown a graph with the expected average attainment for his age group and his actual attainment. I am encouraged to look through his books, wherein lies the evidence. Every single time, he has progressed further along those graphs. He's bright - he might get those levels on his own, but I seriously doubt it!

His teacher wants him to get level 3 in his SATS, so the support teacher takes him and a small group of similar ability children, once a week, and works on writing skills with them. His writing has come on hugely during this time.

One boy, one school - hardly a serious study - but it does seem to refute your claims. (And mine are evidence-based.)

*fabled - Ds is not the stuff of legend, but autocorrect soon might be.