Governors May Vote Down Academies
ship Governors have to remember, especially parent governors they represent parents not themselves and have no right to vote down academy status unless they have balloted parents. Also governors are there to support the head teacher not tell them what to do surely if the school management want to go for academy status then so be it they are the professionals. At the risk of upsetting many governors and I have been governors of every kind of school, including nursery and Tertiary College since 1975 and a governor trainer, I think the previous government passed far too many powers to governors. Governors work hard and are very committed people who in most cases benefit schools enormously but the majority are not trained professional educationalist surely the role of Governor is to help and support not as one Governor has said if the school goes to Academy I will resign. Strange how governors think it is okay to appoint the head but then not agree with them perhaps we should go back to the LEA making Head Teacher appointments if governors are so attached to the LEA or is it because many governors work for LEAs, just a thought.
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Whatever the benefits of Academies are (or are not), the role of the governors (particularly LA, Parent and Community)is to continually challenge the headteacher and leadership team to ensure the school delivers the best possible education to the kids.
Just because the governors of a school appoint the headteacher, doesn’t mean the duty of challenge is somehow suspended and the headteacher must get it right because he/she is an ‘education professional’.
I am a parent governor (and for the last 4 years, chair of governors at my school), and I think a board of governors not challenging the logic and benefits of a move to Academyship (or any strtegic move), whoever recommends it, would be a tragedy.
My experience is that the ‘outside’ view brought by non-teaching governors is esential to getting the right decisions made for a school: teaching as a profession has the tendancy to become cloistered in its outlook (like many professions) and thats why there are non-teaching governors.
Let them get on with it.
“Governors … have no right to vote down academy status unless they have balloted parents”.
Hmm … balloting parents… now there is something that could have been required of all schools proposing to change status? In a free market economy where the rights of the consumers are paramount, and with a government so keen on letting parents run schools, surely it is precisely this type of approach that we should see encouraged?
All governors should therefore be urging their schools to ballot parents, to make sure they are driven by parental choice?
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