[Closed] Tomorrows teacher strike.

However its meant its not going to happen.

Have you considered sabotaging the lessons of the best teacher to make him worse? This will also help if performance-related pay comes in.

My sales team generated just over 2 million last year. This year my boss wants 2.5 million. It will be hard work, we have said that if he wants the 20% increase, we want an incentive to be paid on achievement of that KPI.

I don't see the difference.

I suspect that you probably don't.

How many of the widgets that you sell have parents who attempt suicide? How many have to return to Nepal for a fortnight in the middle of some coursework? How many have dads who have heart attacks? How many are made homeless, or have sewage running down the wall of their house? How many are thrown out of their homes because they're gay?

Neither is Michael Gove.

In order for you to meet your new sales target, I want 85% of your team to sell more than the average member of your team.

He didn't say he wants all schools to be better than average, this is just a lazy analysis of an answer he gave to a question based on the wrong premise.

He didn't say he wants all schools to be better than average, this is just a lazy analysis of an answer he gave to a question based on the wrong premise.

He wants all schools to be good. A school can only be good if it exceeds the national average.

Unsure why it's "Unrealistic and unachievable" to aspire to this?

My sales team generated just over 2 million last year. This year my boss wants 2.5 million. It will be hard work, we have said that if he wants the 20% increase, we want an incentive to be paid on achievement of that KPI.

I don't see the difference.

The difference is that sales is a piece of piss. Teaching isn't.

I could go into the nuts and bolts of this; economics, social stratification, divergent pedagogy, etc. But frankly, there's no point.

Come and spend a day at my school and see what you think. Serious offer to all that doubt whether teachers earn their crust.

Signed, an Assistant Head teacher in an SEN school.

Where you based Bullheart I've always fancied working in a SEN school?

I think the only difference in 'easiness' is the modular exams and the opportunity for resits. Content-wise, A level physics is as hard or harder then when I took it in 1995, which was the last non-modular year.

and surely modular exams a resits drive up standards as if you fail to reach a C and get a D you work hard resit and get a C surely this is a good thing?

I did my A levels in 1992 so I'm 3 years cleverer than you!!

@mefty, the exact transcript is available:

Chair: One is: if "good" requires pupil performance to exceed the national average, and if all schools must be good, how is this mathematically possible?

Michael Gove: By getting better all the time.

Chair: So it is possible, is it?

Michael Gove: It is possible to get better all the time.

Chair: Were you better at literacy than numeracy, Secretary of State?

Michael Gove: I cannot remember.

Kent, near T/Wells.

Pop down for the day and I'll show you around. What's your specialism? We're looking for middle leaders in the core subjects from September...

I did my A levels in 1995 [i]and[/i] 1996 so must be doubly clever 🙂

@mefty, the exact transcript is available:

I know I read it before posting, the premise of the question is wrong - you don't need to be above average to have a good rating as far as I can fathom - happy to be proved wrong, but only primary sources accepted.

Too far away for me but its certainly something I would like to look at one day.

So you think the question was wrong and he just doesn't understand his own policies? That's worse surely?

If you read the full transcript you will find that this was a "twitter" inspired "quick fire" round of questioning, I think he did his best to answer a silly question in the spirit of that.

bullheart - Member
Kent, near T/Wells.

May i briefly interject to say how pleased I am to see you're still about, last time I spent any deal of time here you had a battle on your hands. I didn't realise you taught either. Either way, a pleasant surprise.

Thanks muchly Mr Fish. It would have been churlish to vacate the premises, so to speak. My wife would have been fairly difficult about it, had I done so....

bullheart - Member
It would have been churlish to vacate the premises, so to speak. My wife would have been fairly difficult about it, had I done so....