Wise words from the press?
Date posted: 04-12-09
This is brilliant. What a legend; nice to see some of the trade education press come out in support of misleading reports on Ofsted we’ve endured recently. Too often headlines take precedent over the facts, and this is a prime example. Pete Henshaw, editor of Sec Ed, says it better than me: “When you have an annual report that is actually very positive presented with a massive focus on the negative, and thus resulting in a spate of unhelpful and misleading headlines, I cannot help despair at how the system currently operates.”
Sorry if this post is verging on the serious, but something has to bloody well be done. Ofsted have too free a rein to write reports, and make judgements, while seemingly even controlling the way the press report on their findings. Alot of that report was positive, but no one has had anything good to say about teachers for weeks now. It’s nice that someone is fighting our corner. ”To slam teachers in this blanket way and do it directly in front of the nation’s press is demoralising and not conducive to inspiring teachers to improve,” says Henshaw. You go dude.
