At least Communism had a five year plan!

As a Head of Faculty, I am judged on results.
My maths Faculty have slowly but surely moved forward from a pass rate in the high 50's to 78% last year and my team hope to surpass that target this year.
Well done, I hear you say! Hopefully.
The only problem is that the Government keep changing the rule book. Three tiers of entry to two tiers of entry.
Then scrap coursework.
Then introduce questions requiring more writing and analysis.
Now the march exams are being removed next year and the following year the November exams will only be for resist.
This means that kids will only have one attempt at their GCSE exam unless I enter them for their GCSE's at the end of year 10 to enable them to have three attempts at the exam.
Every school is judged on performance based on how many students achieve 5 or more GCSE results INCLUDING Maths and English.

Yet every year they change the rule book that we have to work to in order to achieve the best for our students.

If students do well the exams are getting easier. If students do poorly then it is the fault of the teacher with no thought as to how their tinkering affects progress.

How can you measure improvement year on year when the rules continually change.

Communism may not have been the way forward but at least when they wanted to improve things, they did have a five year plan.