School can get excellent results, post reels and pics of kids, plastering socials with them. But also treat staff and kids like dirt. One such school getting the plaudits and attention today puts a red slip in the results envelope of the kids they don’t want to take a picture of for socials and lots of kids leave in tears. On further inspection of said school, I found it has a well documented history of losing tribunals with teachers on discriminatory grounds. Reading that, it sounds like a toxic hell hole.

Social media is a complete fake trough of turd at times. Here’s the discriminatory case which isn’t hard to find, read the full report for a full take on what a school can really be like behind the social wall gov.uk/employment-tri…

The ignorance around how hard teachers have to work just to keep their heads above water is staggering at times. The ‘teachers don’t know what hard work is’ mantra, attached to the ‘6 week holidays’ and ‘3.30 finish’ jibes. These are mostly ppl with absolutely no concept of what… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… I probably take it more personally because I know first hand how hard both my parents worked to sustain themselves. As a kid, their routine of come in, make dinner for us, then work on shifts whilst looking in on us until 9/10pm. Then do it again and again.

I’m in a webinar right now hosted by Bristol Uni entitled ‘transforming education with no more exclusions’ with members of the group ‘no more exclusions’, I’ll bring you key quotes in this thread…. ‘The edu system is… excluding them, pushing them out, feeding the school to prison pipeline in the U.K. - using community power we can change this’ NME member 1

“Those schools who try to do everything they would do in a face to face context in a remote context are going to come unstuck” Darren Northcott ..... “Worst workload is in schools that are reinventing the wheel rather than using resources like @OakNational “ ....

Anyone enjoy remote learning more than face to face? There are certain elements I actually prefer tbh! I'll give you one example, classroom management - the high octane nature of managing a large KS3 group in one room is gone. I enjoy that challenge, usually, but not when knackered or grumpy. It's much harder for one child to properly disrupt another if you have presenter control!

Valentines tomorrow. Competition time - best edu themed chat up lines please. I’ll start:

1. You remind me of an OFSTED report ... outstanding in every category.

2. Our love is as deep as an OFSTED dive.

I could go on.

Anyway, use the hashtag #eduvalentineslines Rosenshines are red,
Retrieval is blue,
If you’re a teacher then I’m into you!

#eduvalentineslines

So, today I shadowed Sam Strickland @Strickomaster, the headteacher of the Duston School. His day started at 8.30am with year 8 assembly. He led part of the assembly and set the tone... (thread) ... 8.45 ish, it was around almost all of the form rooms at pace (there were lots!) checking in on staff and students, making sure teachers were ok etc...