Main content

β€˜Pressure on teachers to massage behaviour figures’

Teachers in some English schools are under pressure to β€œmassage” negative figures, the new β€˜school behaviour tsar’ has claimed.

Tom Bennett told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that the stakes for schools are so high and they are β€œoften judged so punitively on their external data”, such as exclusion rates, that there was pressure to reduce their impact.

Mr Bennett, who will lead a group developing better training for teachers to tackle low-level disruptive behaviour, also answered questions from teachers and students.

Release date:

Duration:

13 minutes