Teachers looking after their own.

[DaveT]

As I've said before, I just cannot understand why those in charge of/having spent years qualifying in/with a lifetime's experience of stuff don't forget what they have learned/experienced and just come on here - for free.

We are awash with expertise and could solve all their problems in areas such as (list NOT exhaustive):

1. COVID19 in general
2. The NHS
3. Brexit
4. Global Warming
5. Running your local school
6. Financial markets, Stocks and Shares - and Gold (of course)
7. Politics here, there and everywhere
8. How to run a multinational/multi million pound car maker
9. Motor dealers and how they should be run
10. Used car values
11. How to run care homes
12. T1Ts

It's full of experts here. But that's why we love this place

 

[lozcb]

A little more info helps one to understand , and it seems i have rattled your cage, though it wasnt intended , so your saying the powers that be have developed a system that doesnt work, people like myself can only look back at history and track records , i was saying in the 90's when my own kids were at school that the labour govenment were playing about with the educational system ( with a view to improving it ) and in my and others views they were trying to fix a system that wasnt really broken and had worked reasonably successfuly for decades, and this is where we are 25 years later

 

[dickygrace]

So you saying its a private school related problem Dickie ....is that correct and not a state school problem

No, I’m saying class sizes of less than 25 aren’t affordable for a state school long term. Private schools often have classes of 10-15 as that’s their USP and money is no object, just put the fees up.

 

[bigbob]

No, I’m saying class sizes of less than 25 aren’t affordable for a state school long term. Private schools often have classes of 10-15 as that’s their USP and money is no object, just put the fees up.

There is a lot to play out here with kids clearly being on a blended mix of, say, two days a week in school and three days getting further lessons on Zoom/Teams etc. Not doing sports, having assemblies, music etc means that the big spaces can all get used to help with social distanced learning. Coupled that with a likely reduction from 2m come August/September and most schools will cope. Lab work is likely to be a problem mind.

Anecdotal evidence up here in Scotland seems to be that the private schools have coped very well with moving to online working and the state schools are variable but some are doing really well. Across the UK a lot of private schools will struggle, Boarding schools with a material reduction in overseas students and Day schools with loss of parental income. The impact on the state sector could be hard in certain geographic pockets if kids are withdrawn from private schools. Edinburgh is the extreme where 20%+ of kids are in paid for education.