Once again, the National Curriculum is to be changed, according to a review by Sir Jim Rose, the former head of inspections at Ofsted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_7770000/7770469.stm
Why can our political masters not learn an essential truth? You can’t micro-manage education from the centre.
Head teachers just need to be given the power to organise their own curriculum, hire and fire their own staff and admit and exclude their own pupils - as their professional judgment informs them.
Parent power will then ensure that schools prosper, as happens in the independent sector.
The very idea, of course, of giving people that much freedom is anathema to this Government.
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I do not profess to know how management of schools are conducted. I agree in the broad sense that members of staff within both primary and secondary schools of education need to be given the power back to educate and discipline their students. If such discipline is deemed unfair then a parent can/could take it up with an external and independent board for review.
Parents are a driving force behind their childrens education quality, they may not have the biggest job but they certainly know when errors have been made. They are the "auditers" of the school system and allow for errors to be corrected that might otherwise be ignored.
Now onto your fourth paragraph. I do not agree that head teachers need to be given the power to organise their own curriculum and deny entry to candidates. This is tantamount to the exact thing the current party in power likes to do, they centralise. Giving all of this power to one individual is asking for trouble, committees and procedure and such were created for a reason. They allow or encourage fair and just actions, and punish those who deny it.
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