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Exam Factory

Hello level five point four
How are you level three?
Good morning C/D borderline
Stop twitching OCD.

Write down the objective
Copy out the date
Open to page twenty-five
Level four, sit down, you’re late!

You have an exam in three weeks time
And you had better pass
Or my target grades will not match up
And the head will have my arse.

Ive prepared some special worksheets
To help you to revise
Don’t worry if you don’t understand them
They’re just to memorise.

Stop chatting up the back there
Stop drumming with your pen
Listen to me when I’m boring you
Or I’ll say it all again.

I don’t care how bored you are
How dare you kids complain
Ive taught this seven times this week
And I’m bored out of my brain.

Who needs inspiration
When you have those A-C’s
That’s our motivation
In the exam factory.

Ned Goose


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Phil Beadle - response to the poem
By icox on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 (GST)

I stood shocked the other day as I listened to my colleagues talking in a senior management meeting.  They are lovely people, some of them quite normal with the usual family problems, money worries, just like me in fact!  But then I realised that I'm not like them - I wanted to shout, "Can you hear what you're saying?" because they were full on 100% educational speak.... they'd lost track of the young people and the externally generated agendas had taken them over.  Not quite robots..... but on the way!

What's happening to everyone in education?  I still ask people to close their eyes, remember what brought them into teaching and observe everyone's smiles.  What's brought about the changes? 

 

What are we all going to do about this - to put the smile back.  The poem is too realistic a scenario now, it's eveyday life in schools. 

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