Firstly, let me say congratulations to the staff and students at Michaela Community School, not for anything to do with their recent OFSTED grading, but for their obvious hard work and commitment to students at the Brent Free School. And to every single other school that is exactly the same in its constitution and character. However, I must state that their recent OFSTED report unfortunately sums up everything that is wrong and lopsided by how we treat our inspectorate and how our inspectorate treats its subjects. Despite all the fantastic work flagged up in the report that the staff at Michaela undoubtedly do, the masses of things they do which are brilliant for students; this report is the
This week, a successful headteacher took to twitter to lambast another teacher he’d never met. It went something like this - “Jonathon Porter - quite simply what a dick, an out of touch attention seeking plank. You are the 1st person ever banned from my school”. This was a single tweet, but the lessons we can draw from it are so important for educators around the globe. Before you jump to conclusions and think that the headteacher in question was responding to a criminal or some kind of vigilante; he most certainly wasn’t. This rather personal attack was in fact reserved for a teacher who had done something not only harmless, but also well within his rights to do; outline his reasons for vot
