Thread by @TrialByTruth

This on one Academy Trust micro-managing is really disturbing

https://twitter.com/warwickmansell/status/1651976335185567745

Interesting US Charter Schools influence here. That piqued an interest with De Santis visiting

https://twitter.com/warwickmansell/status/1651977766110216195?s=20

Had been reading up on what had happened to state schools in America. With this as context time.com/4832923/betsy-…

Lead to this thread about it

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1644969785439010816?s=20

How is it going in Florida?

https://twitter.com/TheDemocrats/status/1649073210724343808?s=20

Really lucrative for some though

https://twitter.com/JustinParmenter/status/1649723271019937792?s=20

Which is why this caught my eye

https://twitter.com/TabitaSurge/status/1652189774889746438?s=20

By no means an expert. It does look like outsourcing a lot of lesson planning and reducing staff skills wise and by attrition. Is that a fair assessment?

Some educators seem to think so

https://twitter.com/jamesatwomey/status/1651515614953971713?s=20

Other perhaps useful context

https://twitter.com/SchoolsWeek/status/1652163802220118016?s=20

But why are schools at risk of failure? Have schools been run down and made ripe for this? Is that altogether too cynical? NHS situation seems similar, but do please chip in to counter if I am way off the mark here theguardian.com/education/2022…

Feels very much like we should support our striking teachers and vote if we don't like this /END

https://twitter.com/BBCRosAtkins/status/1651465430479822849?s=20

P.S. Other perhaps related context

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1641359563944259586?s=20

Was a thread after seeing this

https://twitter.com/RidgeOnSunday/status/1641176633880064002?s=20

More now, this is on the very rigid and restrictive teaching methods described at the top

https://twitter.com/PhilBeadle/status/1652375812052594690?s=20

These are some questions about the private curriculum body Oak National procurement due diligence and governance

https://twitter.com/english_engli1/status/1590438745874272256?s=20

More protesting transfer to trusts

https://twitter.com/keepprendergast/status/1652923016727150593?s=20

More on Oak National. This is as far as I can see monetisation and favouring ever more rigid de-skilled and proscriptive teaching.

https://twitter.com/warwickmansell/status/1587861427804585985?s=20

The same process followed in a great deal of sectors to promote standardisation and overhead reduction to gain efficiencies in throughout, but that means you have to bleed nuance, and exclude non-standard responses from a system

This is not system development, it is children who will not all learn the same. Teaching as once highly valued profession

Support functions deteriorated, social care and child welfare are on the edge. The response? Big sanctioning for absence and close monitoring

Again, at a loss. The beatings will stop when children learn what they are told in as rigid a way as feasible, with too few teachers, crumbling infrastructure, too many coming to school hungry, ditto when those with least stop asking for fairer pay get more productive

The person to whom this lawyer is responding is objecting to the #TeacherStrike on basis of pupil absence, quoting The Sun as their source. This is the fact check

https://twitter.com/StevePeers/status/1652965634592894976?s=20

Tory Boy Pierce trotting out the 'militant unions' line while more laws go through parliament to criminalise striking. This is context

https://twitter.com/BernaMeaden/status/1652350261036212229?s=20

Who is fighting for the future health and welfare of the country, the government or those taking unprecedented action having had no good response to a decade of calls to deal with problems?

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1602990512532865029?s=20

We have a deeply divided small state government, except when it comes to subsidy to private outsourcing with little due diligence

https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1600116019204218887?s=20

Plus perennial effort to micro-manage curricula and ignore the issues that led to current crises

https://twitter.com/Jess_Gagnon/status/1604136266378801154?s=20

The fundamental lever to sell a small state government is choice, freedom, and markets resulting in efficiency. How does that look when you have no choice for timely health care but to go private?

The only schools you can afford to live near run like military boot camps, big sanctions if your child struggles and falls out of that system, little SEN, mental health support, utility firms profiteering. Forced pre-payment meter installs, sewage in water? Where is choice there?

This kind of minority deciding curricula

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1652676763195957248?s=20

I don't know about you, but I would prefer my children are free to question why their life expectancy has fallen Vs any patriotism test for a government impoverishing many of their parents

https://twitter.com/ActuaryByDay/status/1650820625131241472?s=20

Pride in a country is one thing. Toeing a government line when this is happening is quite another

https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1564719745672384517?s=20

Is this a government representing you?

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1652303584137039872?s=20

The New York Times doesn't think so

https://twitter.com/gavinboyd2012/status/1652317848981626882?s=20

More with the link from @premnsikka

https://twitter.com/premnsikka/status/1651833725037019136?s=20