Letters: Ofsted's soulless approach

In the week from Eurostat shows that UK adults are worse than those formed in 18 European countries, Ofsted announced a step of an inspection program whose methods and approach n have not changed much in 20 years (school grade of "" exceptional can lose the state, warns the head of Ofsted, February 10). What time will know that his obsession with the measure is against-productive?

There are a number of reasons. First, because Ofsted is set to the extent, teachers need to be: much of our time is taken to teach students the complexity of the brand in question and try to guess Review Boards. Second, too often, when a child is constantly failing to measure their performance, just tend to remember him in fact, aggravating the process.
I was a teacher for 27 years. I remember a time when teachers used to ask, "What is the best thing we can do in this situation?" Today, the only question is: "How can we do as we say Ofsted ? "We finished with a generation of professionals without a soul going through the motions of production at the end.

We need to focus on education (although obviously not completely exclude), and placed more heavily on teachers. No matter how many other "outstanding" by Ofsted manages to create lessons as a result of his new album, that will not change. I knew this poor boy on the outstanding lessons for control and outstanding teachers whose teachings are only "good". And as any parent knows, a simple "good" teacher who stays in school for five years is worth 10 "exceptional" that are a single term. This is a work of distinction Ofsted has always served to hide.

James Ward

Tunbridge Wells High School

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. Latest comments by the head of Ofsted, Michael Wilshaw, close to outstanding schools have really confused now.

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first turning failing schools into academies and provide additional funds to help them improve. Then, the Conservative government gave a lot of money for schools to become Academies in abeyance, and there was no need for improvement. Now, is that most other schools are not exceptional, after all, so that - allegedly - they need money to help them do better than they thought they were and is something that labor policy has been started.

And successful schools that have not had much money poured over them? They are not allowed to be more, so it will become academies.
Dick Curtis

• Gloucester

. Michael Wilshaw argument that the riots of the summer were the result of failing schools and lack of education (There is no excuse for failure, February 3) risks which are fed on the agenda of privatization of Michael Gove. Affirms the need for a "change of pace," playing with David Bell's assertion that students are "systematically failed for generations" and that schools run by non-profit society is a solution (Vice Chancellor supports businesses operating schools for profit, 2 February). There are very few public contradiction of this pernicious story. That schools with many children from poor families or with English as a second language, to achieve a lower than average GCSE results is not a sign of failure. Instead of attacking mainstream schools and teachers with an eating difficult, we welcome their efforts. For them to blame for the effects of poverty and inequality is demoralizing and cons-productive. And those who think that private schools is better to consider to what extent they have been managing our public transportation, prisons and nursing homes.

Simon Samuroff

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