10B. Cause and Effect____Failing schools____[Phrasal]

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Greater scrutiny of schools that are failing their pupils is expected to come out of the league tables that have now been published for some years. Once the news gets about that the local Comprehensive School is near the bottom of the tables, rumours are put about relating to poor teaching, failure to maintain discipline and bad management. Whether or not these rumours turn out to be true, this is what comes of comparing the nation's children without reference to the social problems which schools have to deal with. In extreme cases, a government inquiry comes about and some staffing changes are often brought about. An experienced official may stand in for the school's headteacher, who may have to undergo retraining to get out of taking early retirement.

The new manager may ask staff and parents to pull together to stamp out truancy, to clamp down on bad behaviour and to see that homework is completed on time. Close monitoring behaviour and performance may go on for some time until the new manager is convinced that pupils are getting down to the core components of the national curriculum. If all goes well, the next set of league tables will show improvements, which will have been brought on by the new policy of targeting schools which are underperforming.