All Inspectors - whether AI or Lead are snakes - they are destroying lives, careers and good teachers' happiness. As colleagues, Inspectors are traitors and cheats.

I say 'cheat' because some Inspectors are serving headteachers earning sizeable salaries, and they are given PAID LEAVE to spend time in other schools as freelance or part time in order to judge a person as inadequate (the person is judged despite all the protestations that it's the lesson - just read the comments from people who have been deemed 'inadequate'). They earn up to £500 per day on top of being paid by their respective employers/school while absent and without office to act as Headteacher. Some Inspection agencies say that the fee is paid back to the school to cover the HT cover; while some say it's good staff development for the HT as Inspector! There is no requirement to pay any monies earned while on inspection back to the school.

I also said 'traitors'. They are colleagues who have probably never taught a class under the same Ofsted regime as their staff are. They are, after all, now headteachers, and they are happy to betray their staff.

I am going to the national press with this

zinzan:

Really -what would you rather have? Serving practitioners who understand the sector and its pressures- or as is constantly complained of, people who are out of touch. Ofsted require 50% of inspectors are serving practitioners - is this not a good idea? any more or less is unworkable. Ive never met an inspector who hasn't once been a teacher- any many still are. Exactly when in the process of becoming an inspector did they grow two heads, lose touch with reality, dump all their interpersonal skills etc. Payment is correct although that is not the true figure. Many do not get that fee, some take inspection time as leave, or their Governors require it to be paid to the school. Got the paper this morning - didn't see anything yet

Zinzan - are you an Inspector? Learn to read. Re-read what I wrote.