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Subject: No Time to Think... Author: Sue Ling (:0() [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 08:44:14 01/19/10 Tue Dear Sir/Madam, I am a teaching assistant in a Primary School in Cambridgeshire whose Head teacher outreaches to many other schools in the locality and beyond. For many years he has been involved in a mentoring/coaching role with other heads and has been appalled at the amount of teachers/head teachers who are going through emotional trauma due to the amount of paperwork and bureaucracy involved in education today. Having previously spoken to Tony Blair about the state of the education system, he has recently visited Westminster once again to voice these issues on behalf of educators everywhere. He is very concerned about the effect that this bureaucracy is having on people's professional and personal lives, having been told by many excellent heads that it is their reason for leaving education! The time taken away from teachers being able to teach our children and costs involved in these excesses of bureaucracy are staggering and therefore we feel it is relevant for parents to be involved in our protest. We have recently produced a petition REPAIR (reduce excessive paperwork and irrelevant regulations) (in schools) which has been signed in various ways over 700 times in just a few weeks - as you can see, the comments made echo our Head teachers concerns. We would like to take this petition back to Westminster in April and would obviously like to reach out and gain as much support as possible from all those who have children in education, the educators or those involved in education in any way. As a busy teaching assistant who can appreciate the time wasted due to this bureaucracy, I am sure you will join with me in supporting this petition. The petition can be signed on line by going to: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/kbconcepts/signatures Many thanks...Sue Ling PS: Don't we do an invaluable and fantastic job!! [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]