Parents of children attending the IPACA academy have submitted a petition to the Adridge Academy governors expressing a vote of no confidence.
The IPACA is a new kind of school which embraces technology with an aim to embrace a learning revolution. They call this revolution “the death of education”.
IPACA founders have now relented to the fact that they will have to join with the MAT (National multi Academy trust) for support in keeping education going.
22 teaching redundancies have been made since this Academy was established. Leaving the academy to rely on NQT or supply teachers as its cheaper. However supply teachers are finding the Academy too rigorously tough on their preconceived notions of education when they are witnessing sixty children of mixed ages in one class room. These classes are called “superclasses” and are also referred to as offically “hang out sessions”.
One recent supply teacher who wishes to remain anonymous lasted a total of 22 days and found it astonishing that the school did not know if he was contracted or supply. He found himself in classes of sixty children without the required training to fully embrace this new advance into the digital and technological revolution.
The IPACA did not see the irony of their concept called “the death of education” with many parents insisting on a better standard.
Kate Bradley
