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Friday, September 19, 2008
Satisfactory means unsatisfactory
OFSTED has been complaining about maths teaching. According to the BBC News website:
The effectiveness of work in maths was judged to be outstanding in 11%, good in 44% and satisfactory in 40% - by an inspectorate which regards "satisfactory" as not being good enough.
sounds like OFSTED need to be inspected for their English and semantics. Satisfactory means unsatisfactory? How could that be? Is it poetic? Or ironic? Imagine a sarcastic OFSTED that really a school in inverted commas. So the worst a school could be was "Oh, yeah, really great..." and the best was "Oh dear. What a rubbish school". It's a bit like the system we currently have, then, but just pushes it slightly further...
sounds like OFSTED need to be inspected for their English and semantics. Satisfactory means unsatisfactory? How could that be? Is it poetic? Or ironic? Imagine a sarcastic OFSTED that really a school in inverted commas. So the worst a school could be was "Oh, yeah, really great..." and the best was "Oh dear. What a rubbish school". It's a bit like the system we currently have, then, but just pushes it slightly further...
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