incompetence good for pupils ????????????????????????????????????????????? ?

[Thunderchild]

I was pretty shocked to hear on the news that some idiot (I'm taming my language) actually said that children need incompetent teachers here and there so as to learn how to deal with incompetence in life from above.

what the [insert vulgar word] hell is going on in this country ? so we need pupils to learn that those in power are idiots but never mind ? really at just 27 I cannot understand today's attitude, seriously if we had something like WWII today would we survive ? NO we would not last a day. We are an unruly and indiscipline country full of idiots, the more idiot you are the better you are paid.

maybe we need some sort of catastrophy to weed out these incompetent people. I'm not a super perfectionist but crikey nothing in this country works anymore, we do nothing but put public money down the toilet and that's OK ?

Some times I wonder why the hell I came back from living abroad !!! (I am in fact British and wish there was something left in this "country" to be patriotic about )

[saxy_jag]

There have always been incompetent teachers and I reckon there always will be, at least whilst we still have a 'one size fits all' attitude to state education. It's the same with anyone in a position of power.

But teaching is a bit like policing. Someone does something wrong and they all close ranks to protect one another - and god help the one who doesn't join them!

[EngTeach]

HMMM--I wonder if that will be a new area to teach....Incompetence 101. The only people in my school qualified for leading that class would be the administrators. LOL