Do You Feel Exploited as a School Governor?
September 4, 2010 at 9:00 am 2 comments
I ran into this interesting article a few days back: “We’re exploited: says school governor.”
What do you think? Can you be exploited in a voluntary position? Are school governors really exploited?
I think in some ways it’s the reverse side of a discussion we had on this blog a while ago about whether school governors should be paid. There’s a kind of professionalisation going on which means more and more of a governor’s task is high level school management. Depends I suppose if you think this is a bad thing or not.
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Tom Hesmondhalgh
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Justin Partridge | September 4, 2010 at 9:34 am
Not exploited in terms of being unaware of what I was signing up for, but possibly in terms of a lack of structured training opportunities and recognition of the level of professionalism required maybe.
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Tom Hesmondhalgh | September 4, 2010 at 8:55 pm
I’d have to agree with that. I think it’s amazing that there’s no mandatory induction training for governors at least.