Too much is being asked of school teaching assistants by way of helping pupils with medical treatments, BBC News reports - for example, "administering drugs for heart problems, changing colostomy bags and testing blood sugar levels."
Surely these procedures would be better dealt with by schools employing school nurses? In my opinion, schools and/or local education authorities should not have to train up teaching assistants to do tasks well outside their normal remit. I feel sure it would be safer, and also more acceptable to pupils and their parents, and the teaching assistants themselves.
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Monday, 11 June 2007
Civitas report finds state school curriculum in England has been stripped of its content and corrupted by political interference
'Political meddling' ruining learning in schools - Telegraph
Extract:
"The curriculum in state schools in England has been stripped of its content and corrupted by political interference, according to a damning report by an influential, independent think-tank.
It warns of the educational apartheid opening up between the experience of pupils in the state sector and those at independent schools, which have refused to reduce academic content to make way for fashionable causes.
No major subject area has escaped the blight of political interference, according to the report published by Civitas.
"The traditional subject areas have been hijacked to promote fashionable causes such as gender awareness, the environment and anti-racism, while teachers are expected to help to achieve the Government's social goals instead of imparting a body of academic knowledge to their students," it says.
The report, The Corruption of the Curriculum, comes as the General Teaching Council, representing the teaching profession in England, calls for the scrapping of all national curriculum tests."
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Extract:
"The curriculum in state schools in England has been stripped of its content and corrupted by political interference, according to a damning report by an influential, independent think-tank.
It warns of the educational apartheid opening up between the experience of pupils in the state sector and those at independent schools, which have refused to reduce academic content to make way for fashionable causes.
No major subject area has escaped the blight of political interference, according to the report published by Civitas.
"The traditional subject areas have been hijacked to promote fashionable causes such as gender awareness, the environment and anti-racism, while teachers are expected to help to achieve the Government's social goals instead of imparting a body of academic knowledge to their students," it says.
The report, The Corruption of the Curriculum, comes as the General Teaching Council, representing the teaching profession in England, calls for the scrapping of all national curriculum tests."
Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)
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