Teachers Are Ordered to Smile at Their Pupils

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   A secondary school has ___ teachers to welcome children ___ a smile at the ___ of every lesson as ___ of a drive to ___ more power to pupils. ___ have also been told ___ ensure they are not ___ students by setting work ___ is too hard.

   The ___ is the latest example ___ a Government initiative to ___ pupils a major say ___ many aspects of their ___, but some critics say ___ is putting children in ___.

   Yesterday the Mail revealed ___ 20 students at a ___ secondary school were given ___ to provide instant feedback ___ teachers to senior staff. ___ another incident, a teacher ___ interviewed for a job ___ a student panel was ___ to sing the Michael ___ song ‘Bad’. She failed ___ get the job after ___. Pupils on another interview panel voted in favour of a female candidate because she was the ‘prettiest’, although she was not hired.

   Schools Secretary Ed Balls admitted the approach used by some schools was ‘completely wrong’, ‘absurd’ and ‘ridiculous’. ‘The people who are in charge are the head teachers, the governors and the teachers,’ he said. ‘The idea that you would give out iPhones to secretly spy on teachers, that would be in my view, completely wrong’. ‘Any head teacher doing that needs to look hard at themselves and consider the way in which they are doing things’.

   But far from dismissing the practice, he added: ‘Some schools do ask teachers to get a report from the children about how lessons are going’.

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