Is this the most insensitive headteacher ever

cosmicchris00 said:
Perhaps he's like me....

Fed up with seeing people entering the workforce with unrealistically high levels of entitlement and expectations way above their ability. Refusing to take direction, using / abusing the system and trying to lie their way out of the shit situations they've created.

Or maybe I'm the unrealistic one....?
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Or maybe you're talking about an almost totally different subject.

Manny F said:
I know sod all about education and how achievements match exams etc but I see where he is coming from. Trying to get kids to see the long term picture that a bit of effort on the boring stuff now could bring dividends later on.
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Perhaps he hasn't read all the research on learning theory and education that demonstrates that encouragement works better than threat. Maybe he's tried the 'try hard and you'll be rewarded' stuff and decided to go his own way with the 'fail this exam and you're a useless fucker who'll never have owt' approach. I have more of an issue with people reading a whole lot of stuff into his intentions and perspective than I actually have with what the knacker said - which most people would just pass off as the ravings of an unpleasant individual.

Just to be clear; I'm not outraged
 
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We were constantly fed that when doing exams at school....famous line, must go to uni if you want to earn over £20k a year.. :rolleyes:
 
japs said:
We were constantly fed that when doing exams at school....famous line, must go to uni if you want to earn over £20k a year.. :rolleyes:
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So you would know it was a stupu line to feed children as more than half the population do not go to university.
Was crazy then and still crazy now
 
He says ‘probably’ and he is correct but should not have sent a letter saying that. It’s like saying if your kid is Pupil Premium they’re more likely to be in trouble in school, true but no need to say it.
 
My boss left school at 16 with few qualifications and became a plumbers apprentice he now owns a multi million pound company.
He is also a complete c——-t
 
We like to think we're teaching them to be well rounded individuals with care are thought for the world we live in.
Why do we insist they take exams? To prove they've learnt? To measure them on a grading system? To ensure they have "qualifications" to go to further education?

We want them to survive and do well in life, this equates to getting a good job , with good money to buy good things.

In this world of commercialism that's the best way to survive.

He may be right,just went about it the wrong way.
 
I read somewhere the other day that kids in their last year at school are meant to do 35-40 hours revision/schoolwork a week.

Guess they do around 30 hrs of lessons so they want the poor bastards to do 70hr weeks for a year at 15.

Madness
 
I did f***ing brilliantly in GCSEs (talking straight A/A* across the board) and A-levels, degree from a good uni... drive a shit car and my career's shit (mainly cos I chose to go into teaching). Fair few I know who have nice cars and flash houses have so because they married money, inherited money (or the house from parents before the prices went through the roof) or either grafted their arse off/financed themselves up to the eyeballs for them and haven't got a GCSE to their name.

That letter's a guy who's shitting himself he's not going to get the school to get the targets they need to get and has decided to offload all of that onto those lower down in the chain to give a good booting to - I bet the staff have had hell from him as well behind the scenes.
 

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