Poor performing governors in England’s schools should be removed from office, an influential MPs’ committee has said.
The Commons Education Committee said the quality of governing bodies, manned by volunteers, was inadequate in many schools, particularly primaries.
It is my experience that many schools are crying out for people willing to volunteer to be governors. So, if they get sacked for “poor performance” who will volunteer to take their place? It’s not as if anyone is queuing up after all.
I wish there was a way of reviewing the performance of MPs.
Don’t say “Oh that is done each election”, I mean a proper review of the quality of legislation introduced and the quantity removed. Marks out of ten stuff. Zero marks when an enabling bill allows a minister to modify an 1830 act that ‘mostly’ still remains on the statute book. We’ve had word processing for 40-plus years – make a change, new act. Make the law ‘accessible’ to the plebs, of the people, for the people, etc.
“I mean a proper review of the quality of legislation introduced and the quantity removed.”
That is something I would wholeheartedly agree with. The technical quality of the drafting of legislation is abysmal. Of course, civil servants are responsible for that; but MPs are responsible for poor oversight and review and failing to correct the errors. One laughable example. The The “Violent Crime Reduction Act” made several things illegal that had been illegal for some years already.
Could the Committee, by commenting on the poor performance of *volunteer* governors, be angling to create a new set of NGOs as *professional* governors?
Well…
Now I don’t know a lot about school governors, but I didn’t think they undertook any task that was possible of being monitored for performance reasons. The head teacher does all that. The governors just pontificate.
Or is it the performance of the pontification that is being measured. The more bingo words the better?