Trainee teachers are a bit of a lottery - you never know who the university are going to send you. We've had a bit of a mixed bunch this year to be honest. The first cohort, before Christmas, were very good and will make excellent classroom practitioners.
The second cohort however was a different kettle of fish altogether. We had one who couldn't write on the board, another who ignored the class entirely and talked to themselves whilst facing the board, and an English trainee who couldn't read - I jest you not!
You'd have thought that all three would have failed, but "No". They are all able to qualify as teachers in the future for reasons beyond my comprehension: if they aren't good enough they should be failed. So perhaps the inability to allow people to fail goes beyond teaching children in schools.
To be honest just one look at these trainees should have told the universities that they weren't up to the job, but in today's market someone will take the money that comes with each trainee, so it might as well be them.
The moral of the story: don't believe the governement when they say that loads of people are training to be teachers, because even though numbers are reasonably high (although not as high as they used to be I believe), the standard of some is appalling. Quantity rather than quality seems to be the order of the day.
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