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> This is absolutely not the case today. Schools have a general idea of when an inspection will be (i.e: what season of the year) based on when their last inspe
by bArray 6y ago
> This is absolutely not the case today. Schools have a general idea of when an inspection will be (i.e: what season of the year) based on when their last inspection was, but they're only told that an inspection will happen on the morning of the inspection [0].
I have family still in the school system in the UK - but they still get advanced notice. Essentially somebody at the school either knows the inspector or somebody very close to them, and gets a tip off about when it will occur. The system is still corrupt.
One of the biggest things they do is to take a disruptive child and literally lock them up in a building called "room 101". The entire school would have an assembly on that morning at very first thing and told to behave or else.
Half of the stories reflect exactly cases I know to have happened in my local secondary schools, where both students and teachers have acted badly, and in many cases illegally. Honestly, it really makes home schooling an attractive option if you can afford to do so.
- opheliate 6y ago> Essentially somebody at the school either knows the inspector or somebody very close to them, and gets a tip off about when it will occur. That's impressive corruption. My mother works in one of the local secondary schools, and they absolutely do not get know when inspections will occur, I guess that really depends on the school.
- michaelt 6y agoI don't know anything about corruption - but I do know multiple inspectors turn up together, and most inspectors are themselves former teachers. So it's easy to imagine how occasionally an inspector would have an old friend at the school.