Sharp elbowed parents put pressure on teachers for exam results
Sharp elbowed parents put pressure on teachers for exam results
The BBC ran a piece on sharp elbowed parents giving pressure to teachers. Lobbying teachers to award higher grades. Is the reason why exams should never have been cancelled in the first place.
Richard Sheriff, president of the ASCL heads' union, said that parents with "pointy elbows and lawyer friends".
He suggested it was particularly schools in affluent areas where parents would try to sway teachers.
If we had choosen not exams cancelled this would not be a problem!
Mr Sheriff said it "really worries me" that this pressure could widen the social divide in exam results.
Geoff Barton, the heads' union's general secretary, gave an example of a teacher who had been emailed by parents over the high grades needed for their daughter's ambition to become a doctor.
"We have to protect individual teachers," said Mr Barton.
'He urged schools to remind parents that exam boards would issue results - and not teachers - and that the boards would carry out spot checks on how grades were being decided.
He criticised the idea that the pupils' grades would be a "negotiation".
This should not be about parents who "shout the loudest to get their child the furthest", said Mr Sheriff, an executive head teacher in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
Simon Lebus, acting chief exam regulator, this week warned that parents could make teachers feel "uncomfortable" with an "intrusive interest" over exam results.
Obvious concerns of grade inflation, if teachers are too generous in their grade estimations.
Here at the Exam House strongly believe exams should not have been cancelled. They are both social distancing in their very nature. While removing the burden of centre assessed grades for teachers. Teachers who can get on and teach rather than grade.
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This is not true in other exam settings. Including professional exams like ACCA accounting exams. (The Exam House is an ACCA exam centre). They continue unabated using computer based exams.