Teacher: New plans to sack poor teachers can be open to manipulation

Anyone who works in a school knows the persistent offenders - those who miss the morning briefing, fails to show up for their duty, misses report writing deadlines, moans about new initiatives, has a couple of days off a term, does little planning and leaves school on the stroke of 3:30pm.

Up until today it has been very difficult to get rid of these types of teacher and it's bad for the profession having people like this in teaching.

I do have some concerns about the plans - that it is open to manipulation. It gives headteachers another way to get rid of someone they don't like.