HOT NEWS

[DadAtLarge]

New White Paper from DCSF

Schools to Have Report Cards

The Parent Guarantee

Other Links (in right column)

Teachers Facing Five Year Licensing

Pretty big changes to primary education, schools, inspections, parental rights, G&T, SEN, teachers' competence etc.

Anybody read any of it?

Can you just precis it for us? It's too hot to read links...

Honestly, Aitch had a point [wooden spoon]

I cannot be arsed to plough through links, just bare bones please

Five -yearly fitness checks (already checked yearly now)
Pupils get right to safe and happy school
More cash for pupils in deprived area
High Performance schools to work with worse neighbours (or else)
Parents to be fined if pupils don?t behave
League tables to be replaced by report cards (grades )
Chains of schools under one head
Literacy and Numeracy Framework removed
Councils told to act on parents views

What about that idea that every child who needs one will get 1:1 teaching from a specially clever tutor?
Take all the IEPs out of my class and I'm down to 24, remove the NOC and I'm down to 18.
Can we do report cards on parents?
Reciprocity?

Is there a General Election round the corner?

How much money did they spend on the Primary Framework?
It's only been around for a short while, I've only just got used to where all the bits are.

'Councils told to act on parents' views'
So is that the vociferous group of parents who think homework should be banned in primary schools, or the equally numerous, equally vociferous group who think it should stay.

You only have to look at any education thread on MN to see how unlikely you are to get a consensus.

Hear, hear, Rustybear.