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Worth a second repost.
It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
Yes indeed. Of course it should.
Shouldn’t this be investigated as misconduct in public office?
What are people thinking when they invade their child's privacy. It's intrusive and uncomfortable to be forced into the public gaze.
Detaining young children is not acceptable by any standards, it’s sign of a terminally fragile democracy. It’s time for other western democracies to follow Carney’s lead; to frankly call out the Trump regime. In the meantime… what are democrats in federal governance actually *doing*?
A thread from this morning about inflexible systems. 🧵
And don’t forget the privately owned social care providers. Cutting off their gravy trains would certainly help the national budget. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
Maybe have a look at the salaries of the CEOs and business managers at all non-LEA schools. #EduSky
We've always had edu research but it's not really been used by people to impose methods until fairly recent times. It has been turned into a bit of a cudgel by some to push their favoured approach. But teaching isn't just a science, it's also an art and a craft. That focus will come back soon! 3/3
It's basically like a cycle of methods that spins around once every decade or so. We so often seem to lurch from one side to another. As I say to new teachers, 'know what your values are and stick to them because once every ten years people will say you were doing the right thing all along'. 2/3
You know I do sometimes wonder exactly when this 'progressive age' was in education that self-styled 'traditionalists' rail against because surely if it was such a disaster we'd see it in exam results? I've been in education for 30+ years and imo very little has massively changed. 1/3
One of my abiding impressions of Brexit is the way it slammed doors of opportunity in the faces of young people several rungs below Boris Johnson’s countless children on the ladders of privilege & advantage.
Well said, Pam. I totally agree.
There’s a wealth of evidence that suggests corporate methods don’t work in education, and are particularly damaging to teenagers. Have a look at my back catalogue on Yorkshire Bylines for some summaries. Or, here’s one longer piece.
We’ve gone around this ‘if you object to zero tolerance you want anarchy’ merry go round too long. Of course children& teenagers need boundaries. But these need to be managed by caring adults. Of course they need to be separated from the main cohort sometimes. But for extra attention, not isolation.
"Gibb’s apparent Pavlovian response to hearing his favourite words and authors led him to swiftly appoint (often highly inexperienced) people to key positions of influence over the education of England’s millions of children"
This is a superb thread that captures and explains the frustrations many of us feel, but did not/could not articulate as well as this. 👏 Bravo.
How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
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Make the links. Streeting. Hood. MacAlister. It's pure, unadulterated cronyism. The thing that Labour pledged to eradicate. £millions wasted. No accountability. No expertise. Gongs. Safe seats. Ministerial posts. It is immoral. It stinks.
It isn’t used by many - luckily- I think NEU research says 3% of schools ? - which begs the Q “why?” (It’s poor) but those who do IME are having it thrust upon them by SLT who think the way to achieve consistency is to get everyone using the same thing.
Exactly have we deskilled teacher so much schools need to buy this? It’s like all the phonic schemes etc when L&S was free and accessible!
@warwickmansell.bsky.social
I wondered if you’d like to take a look at this? And maybe @oaknational.bsky.social might explain this ?
The problem now is that so much public I money has been pumped into it the DfE can’t ditch it.
And for the record I was never ‘on’ it.
Extremely poor resources& no willingness to listen to any advice on what needs changing (despite spending much of my unpaid time meeting people to talk about this)
I am just completely over Oak. Such a gravy train for some DFE/Gibb favourites that turned into a shocking waste of tax payers money.
>> how about this, free, advice.
Don’t use them.
I presume they meant UK office hours. But whatever, this seems a very poor attitude to dealing with others’ money, not grasping that the person on the other end is spending time worrying they’ve been scammed etc, etc. Anyway. Not worth any further attention. I won’t be using their services again!
Do you get the feeling that Dayana may be a trifle annoyed? She's clearly trying hard not to show it. I would suggest that any of the many people who see this message avoid her services. Wouldn't want to upset her. Poor dear. Obviously razzled.
Seeing how they are calling for crimes against humanity, maybe it’s time to proscribe Farage and the Reform Party