I'm asuming this is about teachers being able to be sacked after a term rather than a year right?
Thing is, it's always been virtually impossible to sack a teacher, even after a year. That's why you have so many people getting promoted sideways but still hanging around being a drain on teh payroll, so I can't see this changing anything significantly unless they are completely changing employment law and also surgically fitting a massive pair of new balls to every headteacher. It just won't happen.

What was that? More empty posturing from the Tories? Well, I've never heard such terrible nonsense in my life, they would never do a thing like that.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 14:09, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Yep, it is.
There's a bloke who works as a higher level teaching assistant in the school the missus is employed at. He trained as a teacher but didn't qualify, and he's utterly hopeless. So much so that he doesn't even do HLTA stuff; he's effectively paid £20k a year to wander around the school straightening up wall displays and commit acts of environmental vandalism on the school grounds, such as hacking down rhododendrum bushes when there are birds nesting in them. Everyone knows he's useless, but no-one in authority seems prepared to sack him and use the money to employ another couple of teaching assistants instead (they're understaffed in this department.)
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 13 Jan 2012, 14:15, Reply)

In which case
It's always been virtually impossible to sack a teacher, even after a year. That's why you have so many people getting promoted sideways but still hanging around being a drain on teh payroll, so I can't see this changing anything significantly unless they are completely changing employment law and also surgically fitting a massive pair of new balls to every headteacher. It just won't happen.

What was that? More empty posturing from the Tories? Well, I've never heard such terrible nonsense in my life, they would never do a thing like that.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 13 Jan 2012, 14:16, Reply)

Haha.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 13 Jan 2012, 14:20, Reply)