St Sampson’s High head demands more teachers
Saturday 22nd May 2010, 2:30PM BST.
ST SAMPSON’S HIGH is under-staffed compared with other secondary schools and its head teacher has demanded that Education treats it fairly.
A memo from Hazel Tetlaw to Education, leaked to the Guernsey Press, highlights her unhappiness with the number of staff at St Sampson’s High when compared with Les Beaucamps and La Mare de Carteret.
St Sampson’s has three additional pupils per teacher and Ms Tetlaw said she wanted the school to be ‘treated more equitably’.
She said additional staff could make a difference to ‘our management of the behaviour of some of our challenging students’.
‘If we had the same staffing allocation as Les Beaucamps we would have 12 more staff than at present. If the same as La Mare, we would have 14 more,’ she said.
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I cannot understand how the Education Department has let this happen. Surely they must keep a tab on how many staff each school has and they must have a human resources budget to stick to.
If they have been aware of this, that is all the more worse; as it is the Department which has allowed the unfair treatment of the children at St Sampson’s High School.
The States need to get to the bottom of this debacle and start asking its senior civil servants what has gone on.
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Simple error in perception here, surely its just a case of too many kidz eh!
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what a disgrace the Education Department is, and what type of lies do they want us to believe.
They say that a ratio of 15:1 is ok for all schools but waste well over a million by employing extra staff ??????
My contact in the Department told me they didn’t know until Hazel Tetlaw told them. This was further evidenced by the fact that most staff from St Peter Port were redeployed to over staffed schools and they have still been recruiting for September in these schools.
How long can this go on for, without a real enquire.
Perhaps the headline should have read “The Education Department wastes millions again”
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Yes, let’s waste more money on overseas teachers whom then have to have their temporary housing paid for with our money.Yippee. This school was a bad idea.
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Kids bringing knives to school, a young year 7 getting beaten up in the playgroud, the police called to school. I’m not surprised now when we see that the school does not have enough teachers. Surely the Education department should have realised that things were not running smoothly and tried to address the issues. The Director of Education needs to find out what he could have done for St Sampson’s, that is unless he knew about these problems already and has done nothing about it.
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Oh, c’mon now, there’s a practical and economical solution here…
just get rid of some kids, et voila! Problem solved.
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