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Progress Schools - Toxteth
Secondary · Independent · Liverpool
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If I settle for nothing now, I’ll settle for nothing later’.
115 Upper Warwick Street, L8 8HD, Liverpool
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This is a pretend school. It can’t really be described as a ‘school’. They squat in a couple of rooms in a (lovely) community Centre in Toxteth.
Limited resources and p** poor plans from the ‘experts’ (admin lackeys in ivory towers around the country) ensure the underpaid, barely qualified staff deliver mundane time-killing lessons in between pool-playing/ bean bag time. The ‘teaching’ staff are a mixed bag- barely qualified youngsters and not-qualified minimum wage non-‘teachers’ (TAs) who are just happy to have ANY job. Underpaid TAs who don’t particularly want to be there. And a ‘head of school’ who actually has no power or authority and is just a admin assistant for the BIG BOSSES.
It is really ‘amateur night’ on steroids. Don’t expect to meet any proper, experienced staff here kids.
This is possibly a glimpse into the future of what education is becoming.. a privately run Orwellian enterprise where bean-counters run the show from behind closed doors and soulless bureaucrats issue edicts from on high about when the latest pointless meeting will be or when the latest ‘expert’ (teachers who couldn’t cut it in mainstream and local authority schools) will come to observe the put-upon ‘teachers’. It is a future where teachers’ pay and conditions, hard fought for over the past 100 years, are a distant memory; school holidays are slashed in half for staff and the underpaid/ under appreciated/ desperate workers are just happy to have a job. Any job.
It is a future where desperate local authorities pay out huge sums (tens of thousands!) to try to get pupils who’ve been sat at home for months (or years), some kind..ANY KIND.. of education; at least for the last 6 months of their school life. Just so that they appear to be doing something and they’re off the council books. Just so they (-the councils administering tax payers money),don’t appear as negligent and inadequate as the settings they’re foisting these unfortunate teenagers into..
And so.. into the breach steps another money-making machine.. ‘progress schools!’ Here to parasitically drain the council tax payers money into their profit making concern… the latest of many.
It is educational equivalent to the alternate future where Biff Tanner has taken over the world and Marty McFly doesn’t like what he sees… aggressive staff roaring at and squaring up to pupils for the slightest perceived misdemeanor.
Vapes, pupils in pajamas and frequent bouts of cannabis using are the staples.
A school for the neglected, excluded and those unfortunate enough not to of attained a EHCP for their child by age 15/16. A holding pen really. Don’t settle please people..parents.
In the words of RATM-
‘If I settle for nothing now, I’ll settle for nothing later’.
Don’t do it. Shop around. You deserve better- as a parent, pupil or educator.