This strikes me as being fairly obvious stuff. If someone really isn't up to their job you have to ask if it is right for them to continue doing it, with something as important as the education of children this becomes even more important.
The reaction of the NUT is unsurprising and disappointing. They want to protect the jobs of teachers, that I understand and sympathise with. However, defending underperformance is in itself indefensible.
Things don't get better by accident, if you want to improve thing you have to take action, the NUT need both to understand this and help make it happen.
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If you want good teachers pay them good money. I would be happy to be a science teacher if I could earn as much as I can in the private sector.
Having said that, today's teachers seem better than they were when I was at school, and that is the main reason for better exam performance every year.
Teachers are easy scapegoats and you miss the final comment from Sir Cyril, he stressed: "Incompetence is unacceptable...but do not turn the spotlight away from the government because the government is ultimately responsible for the problem" (not the teachers).
Im thinking human rights and sacking bad teachers here and it wont happen it would as sir humphrey said "be the thin end of the wedge".Bad teachers like paedo priests will just be moved and nothing said.
You have no idea how difficult it is to fire a bad teacher. You can sometimes fire them for gross misconduct, but it's almost impossible to prove that they are terrible at their job.
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