Golden Handcuffs or just handcuffs?
Who really would be a teacher? I mean if you were advised that you would be offered £10,000 in loyalty payments to work in a disadvantaged/tough area, would it be worth the stress?
That is the prospect for those in England that are considered to be very good teachers as the British Government looks to “break the link between disadvantage and achievement” according to the Children’s Secretary, Ed Balls.
I understand the logic and there is obviously a lack of good teachers in education around the world, either due to a shallow pool of talent or to those who have talent becoming so disillusioned they have given up. However is a “golden handcuffs” initiative really going to change things?
By taking the best out of other schools, do they not run the risk of those schools failing? Is there not something to be said for educating parents as well as the children?
The way society has become, the idea of “family time” has reduced significantly and around every street corner or supermarket or town centre and you are likely to find a gang of youths, the majority of whom will not cause trouble but are just simply bored.
Their reputation precedes them and now with gang s so predominant and condition to violent attacks, we seem to have the view that all teenagers are thugs, which is not the case.
I think parents need to be educated as well as the children, because in some cases it is one of the great disappointments that there is not a licence needed to complete one of the most difficult tasks around; to raise a child.
In some cases throwing money at a situation can work but at the same time that money has to be managed and structured. The same thing applies to teaching, you can throw a ton of information at someone but if they do not understand the why and wherefores, they never will.
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 and is filed under Thoughts & Questions, Views on News.
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