what a concept...
Posted on 11/10/2008 6:11:04 PM PST by bruinbirdman
A head teacher who suspended the equivalent of a quarter her pupils in one year has seen exam pass rates increase by 65 per cent.
Caroline Haynes, 49, adopted a zero tolerance disciplinary approach to her secondary school pupils, convinced that by allowing disruptive students to remain in class was jeopardising the chances of others.
She has handed out 478 suspensions in one year at a school with 1,880 pupils and seen GCSE pass rates shoot up.
Mrs Hayes criticised the Government's policy of encouraging schools to reduce exclusions, which then reflects better on their Ofsted rating.
She said: "Statistics paint a false picture. The Government pledge to reduce them is nonsense.
"It stands to reason a lax policy on discipline will result in increased bad behaviour.
"Because we refuse to buckle to the pressure we had to work very, very hard to convince Ofsted inspectors that pupil behaviour is good, despite the figures.
"I could reduce exclusion rates tomorrow simply but not suspending pupils but it would have a detrimental effect on the quality of teaching and unruly behaviour."
Mrs Haynes joined Tendring Technology College, in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, in 2004 when 48 per cent of GCSE pupils were achieving grades A*-C at GCSE.
She immediately set about cracking down on discipline and in 2007/08, when the 478 suspensions took place, the pass rate reached 74 per cent.
On average, she now excludes two or more pupils every day for bad behaviour.
Any pupil who swears at a teacher is sent home for five days and anyone who disrupts a class twice in the same day gets a one-day suspension.
For minor disruptive behaviour pupils are given extra work, detention and other sanctions before being suspended if it carries on.
For more serious offences they are suspended, or excluded, immediately.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
A Socialist country that allows students to fail? Maybe we should try THAT brand of socialism, Barak.
She’ll be fired pretty quick. Can’t have the truth come out like that.
Shazam, Sgt. Carter!!
Clone her, let the UK keep the clones … send Caroline to us!!!! ;-)
Who knew?
Discipline problems create more problems in the schools than anything else. A poor well disciplined school will always produce better results than a rich well supplied, but poorly disciplined school.
SOOOOO we could save a bunch of money if we kick a bunch of behinds.
Bravo Head Teacher Haynes!! My sister teaches math to middle schoolers outside Washington DC and the abuse she has had to suffer from the lil darlin’s would curl your hair.
what a concept...
The Obamessiah and his pal Bill Ayers squandered more than $100 million on Chicago “education” without figuring out simple basics like requiring decent behavior and a good learning environment!!
Instead they pandered to every imbecilic radical group that wanted to get paid big money to hold workshops on How to Radicalize Public School Teachers and Students, etc.
Still spamming your website I see.
Good for the principal.
But come on1
Wouldn’t the act of dismissing 400 of the worst students automatically raise the average of the remaining students?
Reason - in education - now there's a novel concept.
She’s on the right track- and I bet she’s a knockout in heels and a little black dress:))))))
Seems they were not expulsions.
yitbos
Thanks for the info.
I only skimmed the first paragraph because I had to go downstairs and ground my own teen age son for not doing his homework.
lol
I am also fighting the flu. I told him that if he argues his grouding automatically doubles.
He didn’t say a word.
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