Hadden Park High School branded 'inadequate' by Ofsted: Former student hits back

“Your point on Ofted not being there to make the students feel bad about the school, I agree. However your point about Ofted being there to protected the children and give them the best possible education, I disagree for several reasons. Hadden Park has a high proportion of students on free school meals, from this we can conclude that a lot of the students are from low income households. Now students that come from low income households are statistically more likely to be at a disadvantage at GCSE and therefore do less well. Moreover the amount of students enrolling to the school each year is dropping, this means that less students will do well at GCSE, whereas if more students were to attend then more would do well. Less students are attending because of reports like these that are saying that the teaching is to blame, when that is the simple explanation many people jump to but it is simply not true.

I must admit I often jump to the conclusion that traching is bad in schools if there GCSE results are low, but the real explanation is much deeper. If many of the students are form low income households and hearing that the school they attend if of low quality traching then this is what they will believe, their attitude of " I won't be able to make anything of myself" will increase. So looking at it from this angle we can see that the Ofted report on Hadden will not be positive on the schools future. We should be concentrating on increasing the confidence of the students from low income households and look at the deeper causes of the current situation at the school, not criticising the teaching because the teaching is not the factor to blame in this situation.”

“Yes, fine…instead of discussing the article lets all point and laugh at me for making an error with the organisations name, after the rubbish I read on here, with people and their poor attempts at sentence structure and the spelling of everyday words. I'll leave you all to congratulate yourselves on the fact that, although unable to discuss the article above with any points countering my view, you have successfully made me fell small and stupid, so well done. Have a great day. I hope Ofsted do listen to the pupils and let them dictate which schools are and are not 'inadequate,' so that you don't have to come on here to jeer at people like me making small mistakes. Instead you can sit at home and make fun of your thick, incapable children who have been taught by substandard teachers. But as long as the kids are happy and we aren't upsetting them, that is all that matters.”

“Go on Tessy see if you can spell the name of the regulator correctly. Third time lucky and all that.”

“You always get children that will learn and children that won't learn my daughter attended Glaisedale before it became Hadden Park and she left with Eight O levels she had some brilliant teachers whilst there and I think it's very sad that these estate schools are the ones that seem to be constantly criticised .”

“You can 'red arrow' me all you like; I'm not having a go at the lad wanting to protect his school. All I'm saying is, lots of schools get bad Ofstead reports, there's no point in complaining just work towards fixing the problems. How the school appears to some children and parents does not necessarily reflect the overall standard of the school.”

“Yes let's scrap all the expert statutory regulatory bodies in this country and use the anecdotal evidence of teenagers to drive policy instead!”

“Anyone smug enough to comment on one mistake, clearly hasn't got a point to make about the story at hand.”

“Offstead is not there to make students feel bad about the school they attend. It's there to protect the children and give them the best possible education. The staff need to accept that and improve their standards which clearly the report has issues with. As a student you aren't aware of what happens throughout the school. Instead of complaining they should just work to fix it.”