Episode three of the BBC's stunning School series has just aired and the grim situation at Marlwood School continued.
I mentioned the show to a fellow Head Teacher at a sporting event yesterday and he told me he refused to watch the show because the idea of it (exposing the current state of state education) made him too angry.
I get what he means.
The Head Teacher at Marlwood is presented as a football manager whose team is far too expensive to run so he needs to beat Premier League teams with players from a five-a-side league. Crazy.
Needless to say, by the end of the episode the poor sod had decided to leave the school and find another team.
As the credits rolled more staff went and, although the school appears to have stabilized since, it is still in 'special measures'.
The nameless, deathless, school inspector introduced at the start of the episode had indicated that 'special measures' was designed to be stimulus for a short term turnaround of a school's fortunes.
Hmmmmm.
All that seems to have been achieved in this case is a sorry list of deflated human capital.
Teachers are a precious commodity and I felt large dollops of sympathy for the humanities teacher getting his feedback from a lesson observation.
There was no respite for him and the underfire Head Teacher.
Episode four next week. I'll need a week to mentally prepare myself.
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