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Te acher zone

Ofsted Yoga

And here’s a letter we received from one OM reader:

“I was rather horrified to read about Paul Fox’s proposal for Skills Active.
This idea of National Occupational Standards sounds rather like an
Ofsted for yoga. Very worrying! Before I qualified to teach yoga, I was
a primary school teacher. I saw the profession I loved destroyed (along
with a lot of wonderful teachers) by Ofsted and the government getting
involved and turning education into a race to ‘be the best’ academically.
What I saw it do was turn many children into exam conscious, nervous
individuals always attempting to achieve spurious targets set by people
who had never taught in a classroom.
The attempt to standardise yoga sounds sinister. Every yoga teacher
I have studied with has given me something new with their personality
and their spin on their preferred style. I have always voted with my
feet - as should all adults. The idea that we need an outside body to
standardise/regularise/cookie-cut our practice and tell us who they
think is best is frankly abhorrent. It sounds like an attempt to make
money. I foresee people with clipboards observing yoga lessons and
giving teachers ‘feedback’. (I have experienced four very damaging
Ofsted inspections and have no respect for the so-called feedback).
I foresee a logo and a ‘quality guarantee’ stamp on all gyms, health
centres and yoga teachers and those who refuse to comply squeezed
out. I would call on yoga teachers to reject this poor idea, an example
of ‘Big Brother society’ where no need currently exists.

Lindsey Franklin, by email

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