Cash-strapped schools may replace teachers with AI – poor students will pay the price ✒️ willstewartnews for ipaperviews
‘Of course, any extra resources can be useful in schools whether it’s support staff or technology. The problems come if schools must use them to cover gaps in their staffrooms,’ writes William Stewart It sounds outlandish. But that was the serious suggestion made in a secret Department for Education “blue sky” policy paper passed to me in a brown envelope nearly two decades ago.
This seemingly incredible vision of teacherless schools was the logical conclusion of deregulation introduced to tackle two mutually reinforcing problems of the time – crushing teacher workload and teacher shortages that left England’s heads scouring the globe for staff. The solution agreed by the Government and unions in 2003 was to bring in an army of teaching assistants who could take some of the strain, freeing up teachers for marking and lesson preparation. But their deal went further than just permitting theseto “cover” classes – they kept order as pupils completed work a teacher had already set.
This deregulation allowed unaccompanied support staff to actually “teach” lessons themselves, providing two loosely defined conditions were met. Their school had to be satisfied they were capable, and they had to be “supervised” by a named teacher. But that teacher did not have to be in the same room when the lesson was taught and there was nothing to stop a single teacher supervising several support staff teaching different lessons at the same time.
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