The Grumpy Man

Sir Cyril Taylor has suggested that bad teachers should be removed from schools.

“Remove bad teachers, says adviser” from the BBC News Website

I’m not sure how I feel about this, I’m not saying teachers should be exempt from discipline or sacking but I also feel there are a number of reasons why some teachers are not working at their best. Here are a few quickly thought up ideas, I’ll put more thought into them in a further post perhaps.

1. Giving teachers and schools the means to truely discipline disruptive pupils would help. I’m not suggesting corporal punishment, just effective punishment.
2. Holding parents more responsible for pupil behaviour in class might also help.
3. Finally, stop adding to teacher’s workloads by making them teach every new initiative that the government dreams up. Some of these initiatives are worthwhile but they are squeezed into an already overloaded curriculum without anything being taken out to free up time.

I’m not finished on this one …