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 Some of you may have seen this before, but I think it is quite an interesting look at what we should be teaching...

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

weebecka:

By the way I did ask TES to remove my posts about my HMI but they said I had to report them one at a time.  When I went back to look at them - despite your claims that they were abusive - they were in fact really gentle and human, laying no blame on her for the abusive system she was part of (but suggesting that she should have gone on to contribute to the reform of that failing system).

Umm, I generally only comment in the Math area on things I have some knowledge of (like the Monty Python bits), but didn't you say, in capital letters that she was responsible for the assaults at your past school?  That wouldn't really qualify as gentle in my book

If I've mistaken that, I apologize. I don't really know the players involved.

wrldtrvlr123:

but didn't you say, in capital letters that she was responsible for the assaults at your past school?

Other's quoted me as having said that wrldtrvlr123.  I only wrote positive things about her on this site myself (although I've criticised the inspection system).  I can't guarantee I've always been her biggest fan - the assualts, the death (which of course was probably just a co-incidence) and, most importantly, the students who we could have helped but who were systematically failed because of her intervention mitigate against that.  One of the characters who quoted me claims to have met me (although I've not a clue who he is), so I'm wondering if he's quoted something I've said in private?  I think others then quoted him?

I really don't know.  I'm sure some of you noticed the way a particular post not so long ago suddenly changed.  I've had 4? maybe 5? posts deleted, which, as I've said before was almost entirely because my identity was outed and so some things I had written about my students became in appropriate.  This is not my war, this is not my doing.  I just want to be able to teach in the way which I believe is right for my students and to talk about maths education.

weebecka:

Other's

Hmmm

weebecka:

I only wrote positive things about her on this site myself

Now, I think you really are suffering from selective memory or you're just an out and out liar.

You named an HMI and said that she knew nothing about teaching. I wouldn't say that was a positive comment.

weebecka:

wrldtrvlr123:

but didn't you say, in capital letters that she was responsible for the assaults at your past school?

Other's quoted me as having said that wrldtrvlr123.  I only wrote positive things about her on this site myself (although I've criticised the inspection system). 

Sorry, is this for real ?

You've forgotten becka that I have an archive of what you wrote before postings started mysteriously disappearing. (All the quotes below in italics are weebecka's words. The initials are a subsitute for the HMI's name for obvious reasons)

I have to say you are the most laughably appalling liar I have ever met.

Firstly the most blatant lie, "Others quoted me as having said that" (that being ; she was responsible for assaults at the school)

Posted by weebecka on 30/12/2010 at 09:21 on the thread ""Poor Behaviour == Poor Teaching" thread has disappeared"

"Yes I'm quite well curlygirly, despite all the assaults on staff which were a direct consequence of J J instruction to shut down the withdrawal facilities for the students who committed them."

and as well,

Posted by weebecka on 14/12/10 at 21:00 on the thread "A child regularly swearing at a teacher - telephone the police?"

"The violent assaults on staff to which I refer were caused by HMI shutting down the appropriate provision for the students concerned with no alternative available, not to SLT or the unions. The unions were dealing with hundreds and hundreds of staff in Cumbria who were being brutalised by inappropriate interventions at the time. They were effective but slow due to being grossly overstretched. The executive head who was brought in (small part time) was grossly misinformed as to the issues in the school (by HMI). It took her a while to get her bearings but the solutions which was finally reached (whereby I continued to teach all classes but one) was what I wanted, it worked well and I am very grateful to all involved who made it possible. HMI WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE ASSAULTS. What should happen - should the staff be failed or should the students get criminal records? "

Finally, the second and less directly blatant (marginally) lie, here are some of Weebecka's positive comments about the HMI in question.

"Most disturbingly our most ignorant and damaging inspector was  J "

"She (JJ) clearly had absolutely no idea what I was doing or dealing with and didn't bother to ask. The reputation of Ofsted would be greatly improved if we could name and shame bad inspectors"

"I have seen many other seriously able teachers' health and careers destroyed by judgements during external inspections. J HMI (chief inspector for maths) is the inspector to whom we are both referring"

This post also contains my favourite ever weebecka quote:

"I have never had bad feedback, just some bizarrely questionable feedback which has made it apparant that the inspector has had no insight into what was going on in my classroom."

"J had no relevant experience or insights into schools like ours (unlike some of the other inspectors and we saw a lot, but  J was our HMI).  The direct conesquences of her intervetions where truly horrific and made is much harder for us to deliver the results which brought us out of special measures.There would be no issue for me if she showed any insight into the modifications required to Ofsted's remit which would prevent such horror stories in the future."

"Most disturbingly our most ignorant and damaging inspector was  J - who is the chief HMI for maths! (I was head of maths). She clearly had absolutely no idea what I was doing or dealing with and didn't bother to ask."

"I don't dislike  J.  But she's got herself into a system which has made her behave in ways which are seriously destructive to schools.  And if she can't fix the system she should leave and go back to teaching."

"I am not an never have had any interest in a witch hunt against  J and it's difficult to talk about these issue without seeming like I am."