Primaries are ‘bedevilled by policy hysteria’

Focus on “mission strategies” and “leadership vision” has led to primary schools being run like US businesses, falling victim to one fad after another.
An interim report from the ongoing national review of primary education said schools had been bedevilled by policy hysteria.
As a result, they follow a pattern in which innovations are piloted, briefly become very popular, then decline rapidly before the next new innovation appears.
The report, by academics from Manchester Metropolitan University, said: “There have been too many initiatives, too many short-term responses to media scares, involving ever shortening cycles of reform, multiple innovations and frequent policy shifts.”
The management, marketing and financial responsibilities of the job have also increased. The report said: “Policy trends have emphasised the role of the headteacher in ‘turning round’ schools and ‘delivering excellence’ via highly proactive ‘visions’ and leadership ‘mission strategies’.”
As a result, primary heads were finding it much harder to follow their preferred approach of hands-on leadership, leading by example: “Innovation is too often a matter of ill-considered policy-borrowing.”

Garanto que não fui eu nem qualquer conspiração que inventou estes estudos e estas conclusões que se adaptam de forma tão evidente ao que estamos agora a experimentar. Muito do que se pretende implementar está errado, já se percebeu isso em outros lugares, sublinho-o, mas o nosso ME parece ter dificuldade em compreender os erros cometidos nos anos 90 em outras paragens e insiste neles. Se há 10 anos isso seria desculpável, hoje já não é.

Leiam as conclusões sobre os efeitos devastadores provocados pela mania das «lideranças fortes» e sobre as consequências perversas a catadupa de medidas legislativas e chorem, porque está aqui tudo escrito o que nos vai acontecer.

Não entende quem não quer, quem tem o bestunto curto ou quem não é capaz de admitir os erros de apreciação.