OFSTED: How a school fakes their data. Part 2

Following on from the previous article, reporting on School1 which can only be described as the Faulty Towers of Schools (but without the humour), we continue to explore how a school, which is so appauling it allows children with head injuries to go untreated, is ranked almost as “Outsanding” by OFSTED, rather than being on special measures, or closed down as it should be.

If parents could be informed of the state of the school they would surely pull them out immediately. In Part 1 we reported on how a child, who had his skull stamped on was denied immediate access to medical treatment .

Exams  – In this article we examine how School1 deals with pupils in exams.

Exams are supposed to be a test of knowledge, conducted in “exam conditions”, i.e no talking, no sneaking books in, no copying, and certainly no leaving the exam for about an hour, unescorted, being given the opportunity to read up on the subect, and then returning to the exam. The last statement seems so obvious that is probably not covered in most exam introductions. But, in School1, it probably should be.

In the exams last year certain students just got up and walked out of the exam room. The invdulators warned the students that they could not return, at which point the students just told the invidulators to ‘f*** off’. After about an hour the student the returned to exam room, and despite objections by the invidulators, was allowed to continue with the exam. The invidulator objected to the student returning, but a senior teacher allowed the student to continue with exams.

It is all about making sure that data looks good for the government. What this means is that if your students go to the exam and they are not overtly cheating, then they are not on a even footing with those who do.

As all the students will eventually be competing in the same job market the solution seems that all students should overtly cheat, and no doubt the school would be happy for this.

The more cheats, the better the exam results, the beter the grades, the better their stastics.

OFSTED: How a school fakes their data. Part1

OFSTED, the UK Goverment’s school watchdog is supposed to protect childrens’ education, through investigations, recording, and monitoring a schools performance.

Over the next few days and weeks, this site will show how these numbers are faked in some instances and, more importantly, how these children are, quite literally, put in danger. E.g. Ambulances not being called for children with head injuries, sexual abuse unreported.  It appears that the OFSTED system of investigation is slightly less reliable than MPs Expenses claims.

But like the  MPs, it is the Schools and Heads at fault, not the system.

In the first part of this series, we will look at one school which, for legal reasons, we will only identify as School1 at the moment.  Though in the future, the name of the School1 should be identified.

School1 it is inside the M25, is has a fairly large student population, a 0ver a thousand pupils. Its OFSTED rating, is pretty good, just below Outstanding, and its certainly not on special measures. So, from the outside, it seems a reasonable place to send your child.  But, this is simply not the case.

The scores are faked by the School, mainly through the senior staff conducting a a series of measures that can only be described as fraud. The incidents that occur at the school are truly awful, but by “following the rules” and ‘bending’ them, more than a little bit, School1 is able to get away with virtually anything they want. Below are some of the highlights of events that have occurred in this school:

• A pupil (child) was sexually abused, at school, by a pupil and the police were not called.
• A teacher was hit over the head,  twice, with a chair requiring surgery to his ear by a pupil. The child who did that is still in school and  the police were not called. Bad for the statistics
• A teacher was hit in the face with a brick by a pupil. The child is still at the school, and the police were not called. Bad for statistics.
• Children are allowed out of exams, for significant periods 30 minutes to an hour, unmonitored, and then back into the exam room exam. That has to help the exam statistics.
• Pupils that cause real problems are deleted off the register, therefore resolving that statistical problem.
• A child, Boy J, is repeatedly assaulted, and the victim of ABH, but the school does not call the police
• Ambulances and Police are not allowed to be called without the heads permission, to try and reduce the number of calls to school (to help the statistics). It is this latest incident, that is reported below.

This month a child, who recently had lost part of their sight  as a result of  being the victim of another incident in the school, was stamped on the head by another pupil. The child was clearly in truma, with a stamp mark on his face, possible bleeding from the eye, and all the warning signs of head truma that a lay person would spot. This was not kids playing this was a stamp to the face. This incident alone is awful, but at the school, which  is so used to violence,  nothing was done for quite a while.

The parents were not called for some time, despite requests by junior staff for this to be done, and the police where not called at all.

But most concerning is the ambulance was not called for 20 minutes, as staff had to follow school policy (or effectively lose their job). For 20 minutes the child was left, untreated, with no ambulance being called until the Head, who is not a doctor, or a medical proffesional, gave the all clear to call an ambulance. Only then, when the Head decided it was ok for an ambulance to be called, was proffesional medical treatment sought.

Would you want your child to go to this school?

This week more such incidents, and how School1 fake their OFSTED results, will be published.