Readers may remember that the ‘ultimate betrayal‘ of pupils is a popular notion among our journalists when they think they’ve uncovered a crisis in Scottish schools.
They haven’t found anything like this ever.
In the Guardian today:
Hundreds of schools in England have been downgraded by Ofsted after being reinspected for the first time in years.
According to the watchdog, only 17% of 370 “outstanding” schools kept their grade when they had a full reinspection in 2021-22.
Ofsted said it had reviewed more than 500 institutions in the last school year that had previously been exempt from regular inspections, because they had been rated as “outstanding”, the highest grading available.
The average amount of time that the reinspected schools had gone since their last full review by Ofsted officials was more than 13 years, it said.
The watchdog’s chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, said the results indicated that “removing a school from scrutiny does not make it better”.
The former education secretary Michael Gove introduced the freedom from inspections for “outstanding” schools, which was then abolished in 2020. Ofsted is now prioritising inspections in schools that have gone the longest without being reviewed.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/nov/22/hundreds-of-schools-in-england-lose-outstanding-status-after-reinspection
Talking-up Scotland 
Ah, but …… if they had made themselves ‘independent’ schools using the ‘outstanding’ grading as an advertising point, then they would have been beyond Ofsted inspection, because, according to ‘market’ ideology, the schools (or businesses) have to remain good because the power of the market would mean that ‘customers’ would not ‘buy’ their product if they did not remain good.
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