Comments on: The Cast Of Culprits: Part 4. The Bureaucrats http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2007/02/20/the-cast-of-culprits-part-4-the-bureaucrats/ A Blog About Teaching in Tough Schools in the UK Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:19:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: lilyofthefield http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2007/02/20/the-cast-of-culprits-part-4-the-bureaucrats/#comment-315 lilyofthefield Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:07:18 +0000 http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2007/02/20/the-cast-of-culprits-part-4-the-bureaucrats-2/#comment-315 Reaching for my gun.............. Reaching for my gun…………..

]]> By: jdc http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2007/02/20/the-cast-of-culprits-part-4-the-bureaucrats/#comment-314 jdc Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:06:52 +0000 http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2007/02/20/the-cast-of-culprits-part-4-the-bureaucrats-2/#comment-314 In fact we have "Children's Services Authorities". Or will do when the relevant Act gets royal assent. If it hasn't already. I ought to know things like this, really. In fact we have “Children’s Services Authorities”. Or will do when the relevant Act gets royal assent. If it hasn’t already. I ought to know things like this, really.

]]> By: lilyofthefield http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2007/02/20/the-cast-of-culprits-part-4-the-bureaucrats/#comment-313 lilyofthefield Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:31:34 +0000 http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2007/02/20/the-cast-of-culprits-part-4-the-bureaucrats-2/#comment-313 Blimey that was a long sentence. Sister Ursula must be turning in her grave. Blimey that was a long sentence. Sister Ursula must be turning in her grave.

]]> By: lilyofthefield http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2007/02/20/the-cast-of-culprits-part-4-the-bureaucrats/#comment-312 lilyofthefield Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:30:24 +0000 http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2007/02/20/the-cast-of-culprits-part-4-the-bureaucrats-2/#comment-312 Am getting bored with agreeing with you. Could you not be more like Young Mr Grace? "You're all doing splendidly! Carry on!" As a worker in a school that has recently become part of a "Federation" (note that it didn't confederate with a high-achieving over-subscribed school; from its position at the bottom of the LEA league table, it joined forces with the second-from-the-bottom hellhole) and despite all the hot air about exciting new opportunities for Our Young People and the great challenges we're all looking forward to (?), it seems to me that they have simply combined and thus doubled their problems (because an educational problem shared isn't halved, no siree), and the only advantage has been that each provides the other with a dumping ground for excessively troublesome pupils, who are taxied in at public expense, and defers the time they can be actually excluded until the next financial period rolls over. Am getting bored with agreeing with you. Could you not be more like Young Mr Grace? “You’re all doing splendidly! Carry on!”

As a worker in a school that has recently become part of a “Federation” (note that it didn’t confederate with a high-achieving over-subscribed school; from its position at the bottom of the LEA league table, it joined forces with the second-from-the-bottom hellhole) and despite all the hot air about exciting new opportunities for Our Young People and the great challenges we’re all looking forward to (?), it seems to me that they have simply combined and thus doubled their problems (because an educational problem shared isn’t halved, no siree), and the only advantage has been that each provides the other with a dumping ground for excessively troublesome pupils, who are taxied in at public expense, and defers the time they can be actually excluded until the next financial period rolls over.

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