With a mixed feeling, school leader Wieneke van Veen takes a moving box. She feels both disappointment and proud. In 2019, the school opened its doors as a small -scale, pleasant place with a lot of personal attention for students. But in recent years, the school became increasingly harder: “Last year I was busy with male and power to keep the ship on the quay, while it was already sinking.”
According to her, the fact that the dream is splashed has several causes. For example, there were too few students, so the norm was not achieved. “That was also due to negative publicity by a board that had made dubious decisions. They should have intervened earlier to implement improvements. Then the battle with the inspection would also have been milder.”
Mission to improve matters
Because the inspection rated the school as very weak for the third year in a row. For example, the school had insufficient insight into the development of the students, there were concerns about language disadvantages and the quality of education was not monitored and improved.
“It was really my goal to reverse the very weak judgment,” Van Veen explains. “That was really a mission, I got up with it and went to bed with it. The fact that it didn’t work out does not sit in cold clothes.”