Nearly half of England’s secondary schools do not give pupils a good enough education, the schools watchdog warned today.
We go on to find:
Ofsted inspectors found 49% of secondaries were rated no better than “satisfactory”, which is no longer deemed good enough.
(Anyone else got echoes of Sir Humphrey? You know, maybe if they stopped redefining perfectly acceptable English words to have secondary opposite meanings, children would do better at English as well…)
Ms Gilbert said: “The gap between outcomes for those with advantages in life and those with the least is not reducing quickly enough. Only 12% of 16-year-olds in care achieved five or more good GCSEs in 2006 compared with 59% of all 16-year-olds.
Perhaps it’s the care aspect of the equation rather than the school? The care homes I’ve worked in are not generally conducive to stable home lives and doing your home work on time, and I bet there aren’t that many care staff who can do your course work for you or will buy you an essay online either 😕
I wish that they would spend less money on spinning what’s going on and more money on solving the problems. And I wish that they would really open up parental choice – I don’t understand why I can get grant funding towards Small’s time at school right up until he’s actually school age (which is presumably when it’s most important for him to be there, according to the powers that be) and then the money stops unless I send him to a primary school which has a more than passing chance of being satisfactory, or, in government speak, not good enough.
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