Bag's Rants

And do you blame them?

Well, it seems that hundreds of schools are with head teachers. A survey shows 257 schools without heads and extrapolated across the country it could mean over a thousand schools are without head teachers. Read more here.

Seems that people don't want to put their hands up and take the extra responsibility now that it is a political role with them taking responsibility for their actions, unlike our leaders they can, and do, get removed for the mistakes within their realms no matter how actually responsible they are.

Once we changed the roles so that your ability to run a small business became important to teachers we effectively made head teachers business managers and not teachers yet we still need to knowledge that comes from being a real teacher. A gap in the training marketplace. Business management for teachers or teaching for business managers.

The business side should be run from a central location and let the school staff get on with schooling.

A massive change, new unrelated challenges and a lot of risk with little job satisfaction. Sounds like an ideal job move for teachers. No wonder so many don't want to step up to the role.

posted by Bag @ 2:45 pm