Two more Education members offer to quit
Friday 30th September 2011, 12:57PM BST.
Deputies Mike Collins and Matt Fallaize.
EDUCATION minister Carol Steere has been joined by Matt Fallaize and Mike Collins in offering to resign from the department.
Deputy Steere announced in the States this morning that she wanted her resignation to be debated by the Assembly at the earliest opportunity – which is likely to be mid-October.
Just before the break for lunch, Deputies Fallaize and Mike Collins followed.
The department was forced to reveal on Wednesday the High Schools’ GCSE pass rates at A* to C including English and Maths having consistently refusing to do so.
It revealed that La Mare de Carteret’s provisional results for this year were 12%, which led to a public backlash.
Deputies Tony Spruce and David De Lisle currently remain defiant.
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Not just the education department at fault here, poor results at High Schools are a problem for every level of government.
All of them should go and a slightly earlier election should be announced.
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Whilst the phrase “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t” spring to mind so do the words “rats” and “sinking Ship” .
Carol and her men folk should stick it out at least until they can shake off the shame of having tried to glaze over the truth of the appalling exam results and then resign. How pathetic. At least we know now who not to vote for next time around. i just hope they don’t have the gall to try and get re-elected.
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Offer to quit? Just go you morons!
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As said on the other thread, the failings with education begin in the home, that is were the root of accountability starts.
Children should have direction and boundaries ingrained in them before their first day at school. To much is left for the Teachers to set and mop up, this is unfair on those children with the acceptance to conform and try. Perhaps what is needed is structured pre school to backup where parenting is failing. Both these schools appear the most in this paper, recent two articles I can think of is bullying and piercing, both attitudes parents should have been controlling and not leaving it to occur in the school and therefore indicating a disruptive moral.
You can take a child to school, but you can not make it learn. If the incentive or the moral obligation to try is not there, then you wont educate. You can only provide so much it is ultimately down to the student to make use of it. New schools, new this and new that, change this or that, will not fix the root issue of a foundation of students who just can’t be bothered.
Society is like that in that there are sectors that just don’t have to be accountable as provisions are still made, so why try, and this attitude trickles down to the children and the repercussions are seen in education.
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Can I ask, how long have you been abroad? With respect, I think you should stick with the ‘other thread’; we are discussing resignation coupled with accountability.
Gen up and join in.
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