Inspect, audit Gordon Secondary School

I AGREE with the writer Whistle Blower in The National on Dec 15 about the unfortunate academic status of Gordon Secondary School in the last few years.
The problems started with the education inspection policy called “on-site inspection”.
This policy gives authority for the principals to carry out inspections on their teachers instead of secondary school inspectors.
In other words, principals do all the recommendations for promotion, registration, recruitment and appointments.
The boards of governors are mere rubber stamps that will just go with the principal on who he chooses because they don’t live in schools to see what goes on.
For the church-run schools, they have various church bodies that scrutinise appointments and other matters.
Their schools are answerable to the Education Department and their churches.
At Gordon, the quality of teachers has shrunken greatly.
If Gordon is to get back to where it was, the management team should pull their socks up and manage the teachers who are the core to achieving good academic results.
The low performance of any school is a result of poor commitment by the teachers and the lack of teaching materials.
Why continue to appoint teachers whose intelligence and attendance to class is very poor?
How can the National Capital District education division continue to keep principals and board of governors who cannot manage teachers who are hardly in the classrooms?
What’s the purpose of having inspectors who hardly visits schools?
I am told that no inspector has ever visited the school.
So who will thoroughly audit how the school monies are expended?
Don’t we have auditors from the Education Department who can do that job?
Why is it that the only newsletter we get from the school every year asks us to pay school and project fees?
We should know what the future holds for our children.
The Education Department should act now on behalf of our children.

Act Now
Concerned parent