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Much truth is want you say, sadly.

Your first para - I can see what you are getting at, but in all reality it is a minority of parents who have forgotten that it is their responsibility, not the education system. I can assure you that teachers would love to simply be able to teach, and not feel that they have to be a parental...

I fully endorse the principle of peer assessment and am delighted to have been of service, and will continue to monitor your posts and suggest improvements accordingly. You have to play your part, though, and act on all well-intentioned advice.

Yes, I know exactly how you feel, and after 35 years of teaching could not agree more. The problem, however, is that those children who need more discipline are precisely those who do not have it at home, and whose parents are precisely those who would resist any attempt by schools to improve...

I don't think it is for me to comment on that - maybe BG is frustrated at folk who are determined to view everything in political terms. But then given that you cannot spell "saviour", perhaps you should not be insulting others' responses.

Of course everyone wants to get 110%, but not by massaging the stats. and if this was his comment, then I doubt that he is as diligent as you are trying to make out. And as for your last assertion, you could not possibly be in a position to make such a judgement. I suspect that you might know of...

There has to be a cut-off point and I am sure it goes by the attendance on the morning register. Though I accept that this must be galling for you, absence is absence, for whatever reason. If schools make an exception for you, then that would open the floodgates for all sorts of reasons. 99.6%...

[/B] When you want to, you can actually be quite sensible. Just not sure how calling someone a moron squares with this.

I can fully appreciate that this would be very irritating, but do please try and look at the matter from the school's angle. Your lad might have been ill, and his illness may have been contagious, causing other children to then miss school. As a parent, you would not be happy, if your lad had...

Has you google search found anyone who has actually reverted to a 4 day week? Anyone can say they are looking to do it.