Does this read to you like ‘DFE tells LAs they are allowed to be unlawful until the white paper is published which will remain imminent indefinitely in order to maximise unlawful cost savings’ ?
Does this read to you like ‘DFE tells LAs they are allowed to be unlawful until the white paper is published which will remain imminent indefinitely in order to maximise unlawful cost savings’ ?
Does that read to you like ‘DFE tells LAs they are allowed to be unlawful until the white paper is published which will remain imminent indefinitely in order to maximise unlawful cost savings’ ?
Extraordinary: Mandelson told Epstein that JP Morgan should "threaten" then cabinet colleague and chancellor Alistair Darling over tax on bankers' bonuses. In plain language: "Minister conspired with US bank against own government".
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Children are supervised through the decisions staff make for them. How do you think many Grammar Schools manage to not restrict toilet breaks?
Pupils are supervised in the same way that they are if they are sent to the office or leave for the changing rooms for a sports match, or are of primary school age and need the toilet. I doubt staff go IN the toilets as routine even at break time.
I find it interesting that when teachers feel oppressed by an action dictated to them, their solution is to force it on kids and families instead of challenging where the silly rules came from.
Nonsense, schools are culturally bonkers. My kids school just implemented a phone ban despite admitting that they never had an issues with phones that this ban would address. They just thought it was a good idea.
Then your problem is not toilet use and you are using the wrong strategy.
I don’t know because it would probably depend on the school, its cohort and historical culture. But I would work to get us to a place where schools had high enough expectations they no longer needed so much control. A grammar school near me never refuses toilet requests and has no reason to.
They are justifying the isolation room being supervised by cheap disciplinarians/prison guards rather than teachers.
It might be a breach of human rights to record toilet breaks, but it isn’t to record periods of absences.
It would be that a mark in the register occurred if a student required the toilet and if a teacher suspected frequency that did not make sense, and escalation to uncover the trigger for the behaviour or need and then support if required. Primary schools manage this fine.
Why can’t teachers be trusted to judge for themselves when permission to use the toilet would be best withdrawn?
You decided to implement particular toilet rules though, presumably without consultation with stakeholders. I never said anything about not having rules or policies. They just don’t need to override the rights of children or their optimal learning potential.
It’s an unevidenced assumption.
I’d like to see Leadership that remembered all their grievances with Leadership before they moved into it.
How could you know if you’ve not allowed toilet breaks during lessons?
That’s not inclusion. That’s humiliation.
Of course. And parents are still responsible for their children when they are 15 and go to a teens-only house party.
How can you possibly know that if they haven’t been allowed loo breaks?
Yes, but ‘opting out’ is something that will reduce all by itself if you do. Being inclusive means trusting students to adapt their own learning to their needs and this will mean using the resources of school optimally FOR THEM.
No-one expects a school to say all kids could get up and go when they want without any regulation or monitoring of use, but at the very least it would be a great clue as to which students needed more support than they were getting in the classroom.
Sure. Just keep a record and then look at the data. If it is always the same lesson find out why and put in mitigations/preventative measures there for that child.
It’s not in universities. And it isn’t in primary schools. It’ll only be chaos at the start because no-one would be used to it.
Lots of children find toilets intolerable at break time. Yes, it is likely to always be the same children. Usually the ones with an ADHD or ASD profile that have already been labelled as ‘difficult’.
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They should aim to try and get a goal I reckon. But what do I know? I’ve never played football.
To be fair I know of SO many families who have children out of school with no-one really very clear what their education is or taking responsibility for it. If threatened with fines the parents will say they are home educated but only because being at home doing nowt is the lesser of evils.