I caught part of the TV police drama ‘The Bill’ a couple of weeks ago. The plot involved a policeman prowling the corridors of a secondary school. It contained scenes of him sitting in his in-school office, a room set up specially for the police somewhere within the school.
“It’s no wonder we don’t usually watch this,” said I to the wife, “when they have farfetched storylines like this one!”
All I can say is, sorry ITV, I got that one wrong!
A survey has suggested that almost half of secondary schools in England have a dedicated police officer. There are more than 5,000 schools in Safer School Partnerships with the police, including 20% of primary schools. They are placed there to ‘tackle bad behaviour, cut truancy and build a relationship between youngsters and the police.’
When I was at secondary school, over fifty years ago, the ultimate deterrent was either the cane or a home visit from the ‘school board man’.
Parents were the ones that taught their progeny right from wrong, the police were there to prevent crime.
Now it seems that the overworked police force (via the council tax payer) has been saddled with both jobs!
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Parent power
The Government are outlining plans today for a shake up in education whereby parents in England could get the power to force councils to improve the quality of their local schools.
Parents would be able to demand action at a school in their area, even if their children were not pupils. From what I understand, this would by-pass an OFSTED inspectors enquiry and Government intervention.
It would give parents of primary school pupils the right to complain about a secondary school that their children may be attending in the future. The local authority would have to take these complaints on-board and make every possible effort to raise the school standards. This includes replacing the head teacher, if the authority deems it necessary.
This is all well and good, but to me it seems like the Government has run up the white flag on education.
If the Government has washed its hands of the most basic element of a civilised society, education, then it has washed its hands of the country.
Do you want the country to be governed by a rabble that has turned its back on the future?
No? Nor do I!
Parents would be able to demand action at a school in their area, even if their children were not pupils. From what I understand, this would by-pass an OFSTED inspectors enquiry and Government intervention.
It would give parents of primary school pupils the right to complain about a secondary school that their children may be attending in the future. The local authority would have to take these complaints on-board and make every possible effort to raise the school standards. This includes replacing the head teacher, if the authority deems it necessary.
This is all well and good, but to me it seems like the Government has run up the white flag on education.
If the Government has washed its hands of the most basic element of a civilised society, education, then it has washed its hands of the country.
Do you want the country to be governed by a rabble that has turned its back on the future?
No? Nor do I!
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