TEACHING and CHEATING
Not the most challenging anagram, a bit like the so called tests that now pass for exams (sorry for the pun) and especially if teachers are actually intervening at the marking stage, to fiddle results. Intervention before the exams might actually be more appropriate, so that children gain some decent input and have a chance of passing on their own merits.
Apparently some teachers have admitted falsifying pupils' marks to meet targets set for them by heads. This manipulation makes schools look better, and avoids teachers getting bollockings. Heads, senior staff and local councils are all desperate to see targets met, and percentages have to be doctored as necessary. Research has proved this practice exists, and one of the schools admitting such actions was judged as "Outstanding" by Ofsted. How misleading is that! Parents are conned into thinking a school is "Outstanding", they send their child there for an outstanding education, and teachers make sure that if the kids do not display that level of achievement then the marks are fiddled anyway. Disgraceful. I am as a result less surprised to read today a report that education in Albania is ahead of that in the UK (or Non-United Kingdom, to be accurate).
Nothing is believable anymore. Everything is on a downward path.
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