Teacher. Any attempt to suggest that the word battleground in my blog title refers to my classroom or my students indicates you have lost the argument.
Oct 29 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
How on earth has "inclusion" become a major part of the Ofsted framework?
Have we learned nothing from the failures of the past?
Good grief. I stop scrutinising Ofsted for five minutes and the next thing I know, they are trying to turn the clock back 15-20 years.
Aug 10, 2023 • 15 tweets • 9 min read
The absolute state of this. Tip of the hat to whoever finds the most untrue or misleading statements.
Okay, I'll get on it. But no more than 1 tweet per hour on this thread.
Right, where shall I start?
I'll deal with those categories in my next tweet, but I'll start by pointing out that the exclusion rate for every demographic is tiny.
Oct 2, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
So ... overwhelmingly teachers answering this believe that pupils who are the youngest in their year group who are most likely to be excluded. Are they right?
Well, first to thing to say is I couldn't find any recent data. And the old data isn't decisive.
So, it would be great if, say, @FFTEduDatalab or a similarly resourced organisation, could research the birth month of excluded pupils.
I may get round to putting in a FOI to the...
Oct 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The latest school shaming story seems to exist in many different and contradictory versions, sometimes in the same article.
You can tell who hates teachers by how willingly people accept the worst possible version.
50 kids sent home for having the wrong socks... yeah right.
So there's a version in which the head is accused of "sending 50 kids home in one day for wearing wrong socks".
There's also the version where that's the total number in the wrong uniform.
And there's the version where the majority of those quickly corrected their uniform...
