Maggy

In recent years I seen perfectly good teachers chased and bullied out of the profession because their face doesn't fit.I've seen staff who were proficient, had high discipline control,knew their subject and were respected by the pupils pushed out of the job by senior staff (who had long since stopped teaching on a full time basis themselves) because they didn't want to play the league table game..

League tables give a false picture because they just never take account of where a school is located and the local social problems that a school,it's staff and pupils face on a daily basis.If location had been included then maybe league tables might have worked.All that has resulted is the divide between excellent and poor schools has gotten wider year by year because social issues in poor catchment areas will always trump a child's ability to learn and will always mean that attracting excellent staff becomes harder and harder.