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When parents turn nasty

Senior leadership
A trip away to a headteachers' conference left Marion Gibbs musing on the impact that parents can have on both their children's education and their children's teachers.

I have been away at a heads’ conference for a few days where the majority of the presentations, workshops and speakers were concerned with creativity and innovation and the use of mobile learning platforms by our students.

We also discussed the EBC (the name for the new key stage 4 English Baccalaureate Certificate, I discover) and the proposed A level changes, but it was good to be able to focus on ways of learning and teaching, not just on exams.

It may come as no surprise that in the breaks and over meals, fellow heads were also expressing anxiety about the increasing amount of time we are all spending on dealing with parental complaints and threats of litigation.

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