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Originally Posted by shakermaker
For me, the priority of education is good teaching and producing 'well rounded young people', whatever that disgusting cleché means. Teachers should make clear the value of punctuality when in the classroom. Teaching time should not be wasted running around town after truants (especially when teaching standards are poor anyway), nor should they rely on members of the community to act as truant officers. If a pupil is late then give them a detention, if consistently late or absent then ring home and inform parents and ask what's going on. Running around on a man hunt is not good use of a teacher's time and more of a robbery of taxes in my mind, katex.
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Who said that the teacher was 'running round on a manhunt' to paraphrase your post? The teacher may have been on a 'free period', popped into the shop for a butty and saw the kids there.
As for your statement that teachers shouldn't be chasing down truants, then I'd agree with you, but unfortunately we have to live in the real world where teachers are held to be accountable for punctuality and attendance.
Teachers are judged by a number of criteria, results being one of them of course. However, the new measure is called 'success rates', which take into account results, retention, recruitment and a number of other factors. Attendance is now a factor that teachers are called to account for and is yet another responsibility burdened on teachers.