Good Morning,
Daughter attends small,rural,successful,secondary school with Good Ofsted rating.
Daughter coming up to GCSE,s and is set b for Maths.Her Maths teacher is an established teacher at the school and is Head of Maths.
The problem I have is poor discipline and bad student behaviour in the maths class is affecting mine and others daughters learning at this crucial time.I have listened to mobile phone coverage taking covertly of this behaviour which makes my blood boil.Some students routinely spend all lessons on their phones watching movies.So concerned was I about my daughters progress that she now has weekly private tuition lessons away from the school.I emailed the Head pointing out I was concerned about lack of progress (the class below have a strict teacher who sets work which is completed in silence-they are making more progress)and mentioned the chaotic lessons.I got a call from the Dep Head making all the right noises and saying useful revision classes after school were coming up that my daughter would find useful.They were obviously aware of the discipline problems as Dep Head let slip he was one of the few teachers who is subject to "drop ins" from the leadership team.
She promised to have a word with my daughter to encourage her to go to the revision classes but the problem is my daughter has lost faith with the Maths lessons and feels most of her learning is done with the tutor.
A week on and nothing has changed,the Dep Head did not keep her promise to speak to my daughter,the disruption continues and guess what...my hope that she would make progress at these revision lessons attended by like minded studious pupils....well ....with the Prom coming up the school have issued a "Prom Passport"...if you dont attend all the revision classes then you cant go to the Prom....likelihood is the revision classes will be more ...chaos classes.
I have another parent on board who is as fed up as I am and we are likely to join forces and approach the school....but how is best to do it ?