Seeking Proofreaders
Posted: Thu 22 November, 2012 Filed under: Charm School, Cynicism, Education, People, Thoughts, Weirdness 2 Comments »One of my favourite stories today is that of the Suffolk school that’s now hiring proofreaders to check for mistakes in teachers reports. Yes, really.
From the story…
Northgate High School said the role would include correcting “spelling mistakes, poor or missing punctuation, incorrect capitalisation” and improving “poor grammar”.
The role at the local authority school pays £14 an hour.
Headteacher David Hutton said the work indicates the “high level of professionalism” at the school.
Surely a better mark of the ‘high level of professionalism’ at the school would be to hire teachers who – you know – are capable of spelling correctly and using grammar properly in the first place? After all, if they’re making mistakes on the reports, I’d be pretty damn sure they were making the same mistakes in lessons…
In days of old a teacher’s head or department head would have checked the reports. What is the world coming to?
Just £14 an hour for a proof-reader, including the need to tactfully feed back – they have to be joking!!!!!
Stuff the tact, I’d tell ’em straight. Still, I daresay, if the teachers’ reports are any indication of the quality of the teaching, the school will be made a sponsored academy in no time and those teachers will be quietly eased out.