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Teaching assistants

Them as can do. And then they teach!

September 11, 2009 John

The Telegraph is asking today if teaching assistants should be allowed to teach. This is a follow-up to the previous day’s piece entitled “School pupils ‘taught by untrained staff”, in which it was revealed that ‘assistants were used as temporary cover in more than 80 per cent of schools’. The blow hards claim everything from… Continue reading Them as can do. And then they teach!

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