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- 18/12/2008: The bombshell
- 17/12/2008: Normal people should not apply
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- 15/12/2008: QCA in chaos; top man resigns
- 13/12/2008: Ofsted has no legal existence
- 12/12/2008: Our mission statement
- 11/12/2008: Ofsted's destruction of documents exposed
- 10/12/2008: Who is in control?
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The school now reminds me of something else…
Upon due reflection and after a third day working for the New Regime at school I have reached the conclusion that working for military intelligence was rather like working for the school. Everyone in management runs around in a flap creating problems, while admin first define the problem and then make up solutions to what we define as the problem. The point of it all is always the same: the problems don’t exist by themselves – they are invented and defined. We then have a choice – we either accept their definition and solve that issue, or we reject their definition and throw it back in their faces. (I like that bit).
This is of course all far too complex for any school manager to grasp, and I suspect far to sophisticated an analysis for military intelligence too. But it is everyday stuff for administrators.
Mrs Bland came into the office and gave us a talk on how the school was to be a model of co-operation, as we all moved together meeting the aims of the school to which we all subscribe. We were also told that we should not talk about the workings of the school at any time to anyone – even colleagues. Any issues or problems (and it was clear that she expected there to be none) should be reported to her, and her alone.
I have come across organisations like this somewhere in history, but I can’t quite think where.