Apparently head teachers should collect absent / truent pupils from home,! Can you imagine? That in a week when a teachers been stabbed by a pupil...
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"Apparently head teachers should collect absent / truent pupils from home,! Can you imagine? That in a week when a teachers been stabbed by a pupil...
https://news.sky.com/story/gillian-keegan-headteachers-should-pick-up-absent-pupils-from-home-12920515
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This is outrageous. The government need to properly address the barriers to accessing education and need to provide better support for families. Not making teachers have to go out to collect children. I don’t like this. |
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Headteachers are paid for their knowledge and expertise - they need to be tackling bigger issues. Once a member of the pastoral team came to my house to get my son, Tbf she got him to school when I couldn't that day. But I was shocked when she turned up at the door. Absenteeism is a much bigger issue which is not solved by physically collecting kids!
I don't think it's something school staff should be responsible for. |
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"So glad to be a homeschooling type these days. Schools aren’t what they were and it’s nuts "
A huge part of the problems with schools is down to a lack of parenting, although a lack of funding doesn't help either.
Our school, and I suspect many others too, DO send staff to collect students who are refusing to attend.
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"There are a lot of issues that prevent a child going to school, and a one-size fits all approach is not the answer. "
There are very few "one size fits all" strategies in schools these days. Everything we do is required to be differentiated to engage as many as possible. |
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"What would happen in the event of an accident. Picking up children for school might not be covered by standard vehicle insurance. Just a thought. "
Anyone using their car for work must ensure their insurance covers "work use". Employers check this periodically. |
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"Apparently head teachers should collect absent / truent pupils from home,! Can you imagine? That in a week when a teachers been stabbed by a pupil...
https://news.sky.com/story/gillian-keegan-headteachers-should-pick-up-absent-pupils-from-home-12920515
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Possibly Keegan could start by going to pick up all the Conservative MPs who have been long term absent from parliament, they keep taking the money but won't do the job. Johnson carried on collecting his MPs salary for nearly a year after being sacked as PM, without turning up in parliament once. Dorries is still collecting her salary, it's now more than a year since she did anything at all to earn it. Even after she had a flounce and made a public resignation announcement, she won't actually go, she's taking the money and actively preventing anyone else representing her constituents.
Parents get fined if their kids won't go to school. But seemingly MPs not only get no penalty even if they never turn up, they get to keep taking the money.
Gillian Keegan, get your own house in order first! |
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And people wonder why they're striking. Over the last few years everyone who works in school has seen their work load double. In most cases triple but they have not been financially compensated for it.we were screwed before austerity then we had covid, British and now cost of living crisis. |
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"What would happen in the event of an accident. Picking up children for school might not be covered by standard vehicle insurance. Just a thought. "
Any teacher who has to pick up kids would need business insurance to be covered and I would suggest they need another member of staff with them too for safeguarding. |
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"Is it party conference time soon?
This isn't a serious proposal. Anyone that doesn't immediately dismiss it for the idiocy it is needs to do some serious self reflection."
The problem is that although any person with the slightest bit of sense knows it's stupid, the current tory party is totally devoid of both intellect and sensible ideas. So don't be surprised if this becomes flagship policy, the government ignores all attempts by the upper house to rewrite it into something even workable, and it is pushed through in spite of being utterly impossible. The government is desperate to find something, anything, that allows them to pretend to still be governing.
Also - my prediction - the policy will get morphed into setting up an agency paid by public funds with the responsibility of running cars to go and collect kids. The agency contract will go to a subsidiary of one of Mrs Sunak's family's companies, and they will be paid £1000 for every pick up they do. This government does not do policy unless there is some way that they can use it to embezzle from the public purse... |
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