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Originally Posted by shakermaker
I accept that teachers are held accountable for attendance, but surely giving the pupils a detention (whenever they turn up) or phoning home after school would be more suitable. It seems fundamentally wrong for a teacher to act in the way that has been reported.
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I'd be very surprised if the teacher hadn't already used both of those techniques in the past. I don't know Rhyddings at all, so I can't comment on their system. However, I know of schools where they employ 'administrators' to chase absent pupils and so relieve teachers of that duty. By the same token I know of institutions where the teachers are expected to deal with absences themselves, via telephone calls home and other such approaches.
I do agree with you that this time could be spent doing things which are more productive in an educational sense, but the climate at the moment dictates that teachers are held responsible for an ever increasing range of duties.