The cudgels are out at Copland Community School as the new head and deputy act fast and furious before the end of the term.
I understand that 30 or so staff have already taken voluntary redundancy, some under the implied threat of capability procedures for not delivering 'Outstanding' or 'Good' lessons, if they did not accept the offer - but now a second front has opened.
Heads of Faculty have apparently been asked to submit names of two members of staff who they wouldn't mind losing. As in the best gangster movies when they don't produce the two names it is suggested that they go instead. This appears to have been effective in some cases as teachers have suddenly, apparently without reference to agreed procedures, been invited to Formal Capability Interviews.
The question arises as to whether not following the agreed procedures is itself a capability issue.
How this will leave the staffing situation in September 2013, and again in January 2013, is anyone's guess but resignations and redundancies will produce vacancies that will be difficult to fill in the present climate at the school unless huge incentives are offered.
But then the school has not got the money and anyway it does not have a very good record in terms of incentives and bonuses...
I understand that 30 or so staff have already taken voluntary redundancy, some under the implied threat of capability procedures for not delivering 'Outstanding' or 'Good' lessons, if they did not accept the offer - but now a second front has opened.
Heads of Faculty have apparently been asked to submit names of two members of staff who they wouldn't mind losing. As in the best gangster movies when they don't produce the two names it is suggested that they go instead. This appears to have been effective in some cases as teachers have suddenly, apparently without reference to agreed procedures, been invited to Formal Capability Interviews.
The question arises as to whether not following the agreed procedures is itself a capability issue.
How this will leave the staffing situation in September 2013, and again in January 2013, is anyone's guess but resignations and redundancies will produce vacancies that will be difficult to fill in the present climate at the school unless huge incentives are offered.
But then the school has not got the money and anyway it does not have a very good record in terms of incentives and bonuses...