Groves

[weecalf]

See grovsy want snap inspections of schools to see how they are performing .given no chance to cover up .well erm what about the same for our wonderful mps and their departments

[Baldric]

How about his cousin Faux Pas?

[jim360]

Now you're just being silly, Balders.

[weecalf]

Sound like summit you walk on (footpath)

[royfromaus]

But you use similar ways of typing shoal on other threads that are nothing to do with edukation , PP.

[ummmm]

Peter, how many kids do you have? I have 3. One's as thick as *** the other two are really intelligent. They went to the same school and have been parented in exactly the same way. Some people are just born clever.

[dave50]

They should all be snap inspections with no notice given. What's the point in giving them prior notice?

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// Peter, how many kids do you have? I have 3. One's as thick as *** the other two are really intelligent. ///

That's not very nice, fancy anyone saying that about one of their children.

[andy-hughes]

I think Mr Gove should be very careful here.

Instead of trying to show the voters (the root of all political action) what a hard case he is by sending in Ofsted hit squads without warning to clobber all the dreadful practises we know (?) are going on in school, he should use Inspections for their original intention.

The remit of Ofsted Inspectors is not to arrive and pick fault with everything and the cart off until the next time. It is to liase with the school about improving its good practices still further, and picking up and helping and advising with the weaker areas to improve the school all round.

So to paint that as some sort of stealthy assassins in order to placate a media that is whipping up various incidents and spinning them like Catherine wheels is not being helpful to anyone at all.

Trying to ensure that a school with a 95% Muslim intake is looking after the edicts of its faith, which includes compassion and caring, does not equate with all Muslims looking to start little mini-Al Qauedas everywhere, and it is wrong of the media to spin events to look like that is what is happening.

Teaching multi-cultural classes is hard enough without wondering if Gove's jackboots are going to be on your doorstep tomorrow morning.

Ofsted's role is to help and support schools, not wait for them to make mistakes and then haul them to account - Mr Gove ought to use the organisation for its proper purpose, not to be the thought police of the Tory Party.

[Svejk]

All you 'Gove-haters' are going to get a nasty shock if Tristram(lol) Hunt gets his hands on education. You'll look back fondly on Mr Gove's benevolent approach.

[naomi24]

//It [Ofsted’s role] is to liase[sic] with the school about improving its good practices still further, and picking up and helping and advising with the weaker areas to improve the school all round.//

Weaker areas? Politically correct baloney! The accusation here is that Islamic extremists are infiltrating these schools and hence poisoning the minds of future generations – and there’s another school reported today in Bradford.

God(?) forbid we should attempt to protect children by saying what needs to be said!

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - "//It [Ofsted’s role] is to liase[sic] with the school about improving its good practices still further, and picking up and helping and advising with the weaker areas to improve the school all round.//

Weaker areas? Politically correct baloney!"

Not according to my dear wife, who is an Ofsted Inspector and probably knows more about the role she performs than you, or I, or even Mr Gove.

[naomi24]

Andy, ‘weaker areas’ should not include deliberate attempts by Islamic extremists to radicalise our children – and anyone who thinks they do, Ofsted inspector or not, either needs a serious reality check or a change of career. That is not a ‘weaker area’ – that is a hugely serious problem that this sort of pulpy, flowery, apologist, language, designed purposefully to underplay it, fails entirely to address.