The government has said that it will ring fence education spending in spite of the growing deficit.
No one could disagree with the importance of education but at present most of this money is being thrown away.
Why? Incompetent and lazy teachers.
I have two grandchildren at secondary school, one in the North and one down South.
The one down South has been encouraged to take "soft" subjects like catering as opposed to languages. His maths teaching has been woeful.
When my daughter complained last year about the poor maths teaching she was promised an improvement this year with a qualified maths teacher. This has not materialised and he is still poorly taught if taught at all.
The other one near here has been disadvantaged by her teacher in one subject being off sick for several weeks but not too sick to go out shopping etc and another teacher unable to control her class and breaking down in tears most lessons. Yet another is teaching a different subject to her own and I'm doubtful whether she is a qualified teacher at all or just an assistant.
Again improvement has been promised next year, but that will be too late.
Our children are being denied a future because of incompetent or lazy teachers who will possibly retire on a good pension with "stress" while the kids are left to make their way in the world with little education(the teachers at some schools even have a day off for Christmas shopping. Do they not have enough holidays as it is?)
The governments answer to this is to make the exams easier and to build new schools under PFI at great expense. Buildings do not make for better education, it is competent teachers who have their pupil's interests at heart.
The sensible answer is a four letter word. SACK for incompetents who can't teach. Alright the NUT would possibly call a strike. Let them, the kids are learning nothing in any case.
It is ironic that parents are prosecuted for failing to send their children to school but when these children go to school they are not taught.
We buy our kids education dearly through our taxes and are entitled to have them educated.
If we buy something from a shop we can get redress by law for faulty goods. The same should apply to education as it is much more important than mere goods.
Of course this does not trouble the "elite" as their kids don't have to suffer this neglect being privately educated. Our children will face an increasingly competitive world. Are they being educated as well as the Chinese? I think not. They deserve better.
Schools would also be better if they concentrated on TEACHING and not the various politically correct matters they are brainwashed with such as sex education, racism, homophobia and Islamophobia not to mention what to eat.
Consider this stupidity.
A teacher can be sacked for being a member of the BNP a legal party even if they do not mention it but can carry on blighting the children's futures at school until their (early) retirement even though THEY CAN'T TEACH.
