Speech on a topic of education

Should you be held accountable?

Good evening parents, students and teachers, i have set up this meeting to discuss the issue of accountability.
Who should be held accountable for when a child fails his or hers GCSE's, the teacher, the parent or the student?

Over the years the issue of accountability has been touched on. The subject of which is a hard one to tackle. First i will discuss the role of a teacher, is it just to teach, or is it to be held responsible for the achievements or failure's of all of their students? We need to realise that every teacher in this school is responsible for the success of the students as they need to make sure they attend school, come to the lessons, and work. They also need to make sure they do everything in their power to make sure that child gets the result they deserve.

Leading me to you parents and carers, now i know you work hard and have to come home to the kids. But truth be told you are just as responsible for this as the teachers, when you come home you should monitor your child to check their success and where they need help so you can contact us. I know what your thinking.. the teacher should do that, and don't get me wrong i understand that but as i'm sure you know the classes range between 25-30 students and I imagine for the teachers this is very hard to control, or at times keep tabs on everyone and check progress on a regular basis. But if you continue to work with the teachers in the form we are asking I imagine that we can create success this year within your daughters and sons results, we are aiming for 95% A-C grades and we believe if we all work hard to cooperate we can achieve this.

Now for the students schools bitter sweet i suppose, i know you don't like sitting in class all day but at the end of the day you need GCSE results otherwise what is there to say you've worked up until that point. All your previous years led up to this moment and these last two years of school are the most important to date. So why not work for those results, achieve the A-C, be in that 95% and be proud that you worked to get there. Your are responsible for your results, you need to work hard in and out of lessons, revise whenever's possible, choice wisely how to spend your extra time. Will you sit and watch replays of The only way is Essex, watch a football match or will you spend that last hour before your  tea on a Thursday night revising for that mock exam you have Monday.

Now are we all going to get those grades?

Thank you for listening.