| Education Official Says Bad Teachers Can Be Good For Students |
| from the hiring-on-a-curve dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Monday July 12, @17:00 (Education) |
| https://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/07/12/1511254/Education-Official-Says-Bad-Teachers-Can-B|
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Zenna Atkins, the chairman of the Office for Standards in Education
(Ofsted), has raised some eyebrows by saying that, "[0]every school
should have a useless teacher." She stresses that schools shouldn't seek
out or tolerate bad teaching, but thinks bad teachers provide a valuable
life-lesson. From the article: "... on Sunday Ms Atkins told the BBC that
schools needed to reflect society, especially at primary level. 'In
society there are people you don't like, there are people who are
incompetent and there are often people above you in authority who you
think are incompetent, and learning that ability to deal with that and,
actually surviving that environment can be an advantage.'"
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0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/10590460.stm
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