Articles Tagged: teachers
Homework howlers: Our children's embarrassing and exaggerated home life revelations
It's years since my daughter wrote in a school essay that she hates it when I smack her, but the memory still haunts me.
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Why private schools are better than state
Recently we ran an article entitled Why private schooling isn't worth the money. The response was huge, heated - and divided. Here, we present the other side of the debate on private schools v state schools by a parent, who's also a teacher.
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The Parentdish guide to primary school SATs
If you've got a child in year 2 or year 6, you could well be hearing mutterings about SATs (Statutory Assessment Tests) at the school gate in the coming days. Here's our guide.
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Why private schooling isn't worth the money
"Parents forced to pay £13,000 in private school fees" scream newspaper reports and I want to bang my head on the desk. Nobody is forcing anyone.
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Teachers rewriting pupils' work to get better results for schools
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers has said that some teachers' professional integrity is being undermined because of pressure to get good exam results for their school.
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Poor parenting blamed for rise in classroom violence
Poor parenting and family breakdowns have been blamed for the rise in violent and bad behaviour in UK schools.
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Teaching positions attract applications from 4000 criminals in a year
The Criminal Records Bureau has informed schools that sex offenders, drug dealers and violent offenders were among 4,000 criminals who tried to get teaching jobs last year.
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Why would teachers want to ban best friends in schools?
I still remember my best friend from primary school with fondness some 30 years on. We lived in each others' pockets, we shared secrets, we giggled, we talked about what sort of pony we'd get in the totally implausible event our parents would let us have one.
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