tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post841997966039694354..comments2024-03-14T02:53:31.171+00:00Comments on Tom Bennett's School Report: Ofsted put in Special Measures: the blind leading the sightedTom Bennetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03211959016018081924noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-23379706341580091402012-07-22T11:16:11.297+01:002012-07-22T11:16:11.297+01:00I was once told by an inspector that my A2 maths l...I was once told by an inspector that my A2 maths lesson could not have been a good lesson because THEY could not understand it. He said his degree was in history and he had always been terrible at maths when I asked.<br /><br />That being said internal observations aren't always better.<br /><br />I once had a lesson judged inadequate because a fight kicked off during the lesson changeover and the pupils arrived still fighting. The 20 minutes the observer observed my lesson for consisted of a good pupil running countdown on the computer while I stood outside between the fighters awaiting SLT. The observer was a member of SLT who declined to intervene because they were observing meAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-19484980242239873362012-07-22T09:26:22.676+01:002012-07-22T09:26:22.676+01:00That is as appalling as it is unsurprising; what a...That is as appalling as it is unsurprising; what a dreadful, pointless way to demonstrate how a system clings to itself rather than accept the obvious- that unqualified staff cannot assess qualified ones on anything more than a rudimentary and inaccurate level.<br /><br />Thanks for posting this- I'm directing people to read it as a perfect example of what the problem is.<br /><br />TomTom Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03211959016018081924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-76034108333470480082012-07-22T08:58:21.624+01:002012-07-22T08:58:21.624+01:00Nice to see Tribal's commitment to customer se...Nice to see Tribal's commitment to customer service excellence is as pisspoor as ever. A couple of years ago, they sent a team to inspect my kids' school - a mainstream school with a unit for deaf pupils. The inspector who assessed the deaf unit had next to no experience teaching deaf kids. The inspector couldn't understand what the kids were saying and signing. Yet Tribal insisted that the inspector was capable of assessing the quality of teaching in that deaf unit. It took seven months, an FoI request & questions in Parliament to get them to back down and apologise. The only point at which Ofsted started to give a toss that one of its subcontractors was falling down on the job was when we threatened media publicity. When an inspection agency can't and won't inspect itself, it's got no right to call itself anything other than inadequate.beefohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07465906273327584583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3019828684971971203.post-54406624179086450072012-07-21T19:55:16.250+01:002012-07-21T19:55:16.250+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jonathan explains it allhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03318916808517918855noreply@blogger.com