Guest blog by ex-student of Copland High School
Hi Richard,
I understand you are very busy but I have to assume that your failure to reply to our request via my e-mail below is a no.
That you are not prepared to provide any help or assistance in supporting these students outside your existing commitments and legal requirements.
I hope you will not mind too much if I inform students, parents and interested parties of your non-response as I feel they have a right to know.
Regards
Phil Allman
As an Ex-Copland student, I found it absolutely alarming and
ridiculous when I familiarised myself with the manner a previous teacher of
mine along with some students are being treated by the senior management of
Copland High School.
Mr. Philip Allman, a renowned ex Politics and Humanities Teacher at
Copland High School has been refused the right to voluntarily offer
support, help and guidance to struggling A2 pupils in Year 13. I find it
preposterous, that with a challenging Economy, Job Market and ever rising
competition in the places at UK Universities, that offering help voluntarily
during retirement is neglected by so called caring head teachers. Mr
Allman is being prevented from helping the pupils who had fallen behind offering
unconditional support and help in his own time.
His request for access to a classroom on site has been completely
ignored by the management at Copland High School. He has to teach them at
another local school 2 miles away !!!!
What I find even more disturbing is that, Mr Allman was a very
successful teacher at Copland for the best part of 30 or so years and is now
being treated in a disgraceful and disrespectful manner - I have included the
email request that Mr Allman sent to Richard Marshall (Current Headmaster of
Copland High School), A number of sixth form pupils are having
to travel a few miles to the another high school on Friday afternoons
leaving them exhausted, mentally and physically fatigued at the end of a long
academic week.
Mr.Allman, retired along with several additional teachers being offered
voluntary redundancy last year,He has voluntarily taught a number of Copland
students who had fallen behind in there exams as they had no teacher for
over 6 weeks .However he is prevented from providing assistance and support
within the school!!!! The Head doesn't seem to care!!
I would
strongly request that you email a link to this blog or something similar to as many
people as possible, currently at Copland High School, ex-students, teachers in
the local borough and senior figures you may know who can make a real influence
towards how circumstances such as these, get solved with a positive result. It
is of my utmost importance that this issue gets properly resolved, and the
management of Copland is exposed to the level that they deserve.
Yours
Faithfully,
Mohammed Fazal Farooq
The emails
As you may know I am providing voluntary support and teaching six Copland Politics A2 students at another location in Brent. I have been doing so following requests from parents and students on Fridays since late October from 3.40-6pm . However, as you can imagine its the end of the week, the students are tired and they have to walk just under two miles to get to the lesson. As a consequence some students do not arrive, depending on the weather,to after 4pm.
I am now running my own company and thus have numerous other commitments which prevents me from giving the students any more time other than on Fridays or through email and the phone.
If a classroom could be provided at Copland immediately after school on Fridays it would save the students a great deal anguish and hardship and allow me to give them more supporting time. All I need is a white board that I can write on and six chairs for the students. Any room would convenient.
Kind Regards
Phil Allman
The emails
As you may know I am providing voluntary support and teaching six Copland Politics A2 students at another location in Brent. I have been doing so following requests from parents and students on Fridays since late October from 3.40-6pm . However, as you can imagine its the end of the week, the students are tired and they have to walk just under two miles to get to the lesson. As a consequence some students do not arrive, depending on the weather,to after 4pm.
I am now running my own company and thus have numerous other commitments which prevents me from giving the students any more time other than on Fridays or through email and the phone.
If a classroom could be provided at Copland immediately after school on Fridays it would save the students a great deal anguish and hardship and allow me to give them more supporting time. All I need is a white board that I can write on and six chairs for the students. Any room would convenient.
Kind Regards
Phil Allman
Subject: FW: Politics A2 REQUEST
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:50:09 +0000Hi Richard,
I understand you are very busy but I have to assume that your failure to reply to our request via my e-mail below is a no.
That you are not prepared to provide any help or assistance in supporting these students outside your existing commitments and legal requirements.
I hope you will not mind too much if I inform students, parents and interested parties of your non-response as I feel they have a right to know.
Regards
Phil Allman
