Throwing money down the drain!

Today, at work, a 'trainer' came in. To start, he does some psychometric testing, which participants take online. I started; my bullshit filter fired up and I stopped. It was not possible to answer it honestly. In fact, it reminded me of the quizzes on Facebook, you know the sort............'what type of Spice girl are you?' or 'which Louis Vuitton shoe are you'? It was one of those 'quizzes, that asked you if you were 'most like'? 'least like'? and you couldn't be most like more than once, on one page load, or not like any of them.............so I said Frog this!And stopped. Now, this 'quiz' costs in the region of £90 per candidate and my students are short of books and we work in unheated offices.

It didn't stop there. A 'consultant', who will have already cost a day of his time, to sell the snake oil to my work place, and then all day today, to tell participants..............you are a red person with a bit of blue, even though the 'quiz' wouldn't let you answer honestly. Any of you adding this up to see where your taxes are being pissed away? That's two days of consultancy fees and £90 per member of staff. It doesn't stop there. Supply teachers had to be paid for so 'Tony Robbins' could read six pages or more, or computer generated quazi-psycho-babble to people who actually had children to teach. I sat for an hour with said consultant, who under cross examination could not link the testing to later training sessions. All I can see out of this is nearly 2K of a school budget......which is a third of my faculty's budget for books and resources, being spent on 'testing' that had no later benefit.

I'm seething and trying to remember that I am first and foremost a teacher, who is there to give children the best start in life. And, the reason I put one foot in front of the other every day, is to work in my local community, with their most precious commodity..........their children!

I hate to see money wasted.