@LordRickettsP
The decision not to participate in Erasmus is tragic but entirely coherent with the insane, dystopian Brexit project of withdrawing Britons from shared European culture/values.
@sharrond62
Sport and exercise at school are far too often punishing and humiliating. They need to be remade as a positive health and life affirming activity.
@SJimons
Think for just a second : you are parents of young children. You worry that their school/daycare will close and that you will have to keep them at home. You might (all) get ill/be confined. You both have to work. Surely some stocking up is sensible?
@GabrielleBates
@MattMinicucci
Representational and figurative art (observational drawing, life drawing, painting, sculpture) are barely taught. People no longer distinguish physical objects / reality from abstract concepts
@seeking_Trad
It’s totalitarian architecture - left wing or right wing extremes produce the same rabbit hutches for the masses. Only the PR is different.
@alexhallhall
All of that was blindingly obvious in 2016. I cried at the referendum results because it meant that the EU would no longer be able to protect me from my country’s government.
@GabLattanzio
Macron ne sait pas ce que « gouverner » veut dire. Il est issu des formations et des métiers où toutes les décisions sont prises dans l’intérêt de l’actionnaire à très court terme, ce qui provoque le chaos organisationnel. La réponse de Macron au chaos est l’autoritarisme.
@FCahen
Le droit à un congé de maternité payé ne devrait pas dépendre du secteur d’activité ou du statut professionnel. La prise en charge globale de la maternité a besoin d’être revue du point de vue de la mère et de son bébé et de ce qui leur procure le plus de soutien.
@medie_val
@grr_dr
Prenez rendez-vous vous avec le directeur du collège. Allez-y armée, avec le détail des faits. Dites au directeur sud vous attendez que cela cesse immédiatement.
@JMPSimor
@AndrewMarr9
I spent a lot of time in the area in summer 2016 and asked everyone I met how they had voted in the referendum and why. TBH they had absolutely no clue what the referendum was about. Reckless.
@RoisinMichaux
The metro has unfortunately always been like this (I’ve lived in Paris for 32 years). TBH I think 8 is too young for the metro without a parent or other proper grown up.
@Jo_zephina
Si c’est pour prendre conscience de la voix, de comment respirer, tenir son corps ça peut être incroyable utile. Les enfants CSP+ sont très avantagés pour le GO, autant aider les autres.
@AntonSpisak
Really not. Research students can still bring dependents. It really isn’t desirable for young, temporarily internationally mobile students to bring their families. It detracts from their educational experience and aggravates the student accommodation crisis.
@TheNewsAgents
@maitlis
@DavidGHFrost
@GlobalPlayer
I LOVE EU laws. They protect(ed) all of us from small minded self interested short termist national politicians. That is the whole point of the EU: no more Hitler/Mussolini/hatred/war
@moveincircles
Not sure about that. Surely being bisexual is a bit like having two nationalities/cultures? Even if you live in one country you still need to stay in tune with the other in order to be whole.
@AlexS1595
@JMPSimor
What they really hate (more than ever) are British citizens with the perspective that comes from living overseas and/or speaking other languages.
@patricksturg
Well done Hubert! Octavia got 45/45 in her IB. She was offered a place at Oxford but - hard decision - she decided in the end to accept Harvard (and decline Stanford, MIT, Princeton and Yale). She might bump into Hubert in Africa though - she’s interning with UNEP right now!
@RokhayaDiallo
@ODiawara_
Totalement d’accord! Ma fille est Française ET Anglaise, chrétienne ET juive. On peut porter de multiples cultures en soi et c’est un enrichissement qui permet la paix car nous apprenons ainsi que nous avons plus en commun que ce qui nous sépare ❤️
@moveincircles
You can make a commitment without having to subsume your whole identity - indeed, not being able to express vital parts of your identity is what happens in a totalitarian regime.
@BenyohaiPhysics
I don’t think the issue is ever when people send emails - the issue is when people expect a response. SLTs have a responsibility to teachers to very explicit with parents about expectations around responses
@LordRickettsP
The absurdity was having a referendum on such a complex, high stakes issue that was right over the heads of vast swathes of the population.
@BritishInEurope
This rewriting of the rules on which people made legitimate decisions to build their lives is an absolute scandal. U.K.-in-EU should not now have to produce paperwork to return to live in the U.K. with partners/children they had before Brexit.
@MartinBarrow
Why would we expect the values of a for profit children’s home to be aligned with the necessarily long term needs of children? The investment cycle and 0-18 education are rubbish bedfellows.
@AlexTaylorNews
Memorably, a Brexit voting taxi driver who picked me up at Ashford International in summer 2016 told me he was saving to retire to Spain 😮
@hugorifkind
@Ian_Politic
Exactly. If you believe Brexit is bad for Britain, based in rigorous appraisal of facts, how can you then unbelieve that Brexit is bad for Britain in the absence of new facts?
@HadleyFreeman
Good for them. Meghan was being instrumentalised by the Royal Family to make it look woke and groomed by the press to be a scapegoat for racism. Harry and Meghan need to get out.
@Ninamacphee
@CharlotteMende1
You should not assume that SN teachers are all concerned about those less fortunate than themselves. There have, historically, been a lot of perverse motivations for working in the wider social care arena.
@Miss_Snuffy
My parents certainly didn’t systematically back the teachers... they taught us not to obey authority blindly. It’s a very important lesson.
@moutet
@RokhayaDiallo
exposes the hypocrisy of French exceptionalism that keeps a small, inward looking elite at the controls. Free speech, doncha know? 😎
@matt_tastico
@mattprescott
@dgurdasani1
Completely agree. Children aged 6-18 in France have all been masked for over a year and plenty of learning has gone on: latest national measurements of small children’s progress in reading/writing/maths shows it is comparable if not better than in 2019.
@DrPragyaAgarwal
@lynn70walton
It’s hardly a major linguistic insight that it is easier to understand/recall one’s native language, including names, than other languages. My French OH, fluent in English, has a very hard time with English place names.
@timspector
Why aren’t English schools fully masked, like French schools? My daughter’s 6-18 school in Paris isn’t spacious but hasn’t had a single case of in school Covid transmission since schools went back in September
@Docstockk
@post_liberal
Two documents are required: one to record the factual circumstances of birth: biological mother, biological father, place, date etc. And another to record who has legal parental responsibility.
@AbigailShrier
Emma Watson is beyond clueless. She knows nothing of history and patronises all the women who have gone before her and led their own lives knowing their own minds.
@KateBurkeNHS
Definitely needed. With a lot of kindness because being told off for neglecting yourself is the very last thing you need when you finally pluck up the courage to go to see a HCP. When I finally found a nice dentist I was SO relieved
@ProfKarolSikora
Obesity is an environmental issue more than it is an issue of personal responsibility. Jabs are not the answer - the answer is better food policy.
@HadleyFreeman
Disagree. Meghan was incredibly badly cast from the beginning. The most successful Royal wives of recent times are Sophie and Kate: privately educated girls from hard working Home Counties families who get on with the job as team players. Meghan was a million miles off.
@neuroteachers
In life in general the value of unpoliced interactions between humans as learning experiences is constantly undermined. Yet all studies show that conversations around the dinner table are crucial to intellectual development…
@cliodiaspora
Brexiteers do not understand that Remainers see no positives at all for anyone to leaving the EU and that the only cause for celebration by Leavers is their victory over Remainers.
@GabLattanzio
Il ne s’agit pas « d’aider ». Professeur, c’est un métier qui doit être exercé dans des conditions propices contre une rémunération décente.
@JoIsSummer
@naomicfisher
@nytimes
@MrsSDalton75
This school has absolutely no concept of boundaries. If the parents punish their child because school tells them to, the child will have no safe place. This is a disaster.
@nickreeves9876
I think we know already that the government would like to rid the country of those it perceives to be unproductive ie the elderly and infirm...
@devisridhar
Please don’t hold Paris up as an example of safer streets. I’m a long term Paris pedestrian and walking has never been harder or more dangerous here.
@_Stewart_Bain
Yes it’s pointless because there is zero chemistry between the two leading actors while the premise of the story is intense unrealised chemistry between the protagonists
@cliodiaspora
@the3million
People would have to be crazy to trust the British state with their settled status given the extraordinarily immoral, cavalier attitudes towards legally resident non-U.K. citizens in recent years. Status can be changed on a whim.
@guyverhofstadt
Yes! My father was a EU civil servant.
Not long before he died, in 2016 when the referendum was timetabled, we spoke of our family’s years in Luxembourg. “We were building something,” he said, “peace and prosperity in Europe.”
@EliseStickles
@I_msolazy
We don’t need a definition. That’s not how humans work. It’s a chair because our *senses* (far more powerful than language) allow us to recognise that it’s a chair without needing to define it. Small children learn to recognise chairs and multiple other categories w/o definition
@AyoCaesar
Parents do not buy a private education to confer advantage for their children over other children. Parents buy a private education so that their own children have a deep and rich experience of life. Private education is not just about private schooling.
@m_samovar
Et ma fille en première année à l’université en Angleterre dans une classe de 12 étudiants reçoit un commentaire absolument magnifique tellement il est constructif, élégant, encourageant… à chaque dissertation…
@kimwillsher1
@john_lichfield
@GSidMac1
@DenisMacShane
The French press cares far less about the UK than the English press cares about France. Brit-bashing isn’t the commercial proposition for the French that French-bashing is for the English. The French nationalism uses other scapegoats.
@RokhayaDiallo
@laveritepradama
Personnellement je trouve que l’association à la consommation vulgaire et outrageusement chère réduit la crédibilité de ses propos.
@Mumontherun01
@DrProudman
French women have been increasingly articulate/vociferous about their appalling treatment at the hands of men but the submission of women is deeply embedded in the governing ideology. French women are mostly oblivious to their state of submission and have little means of escape
@FCahen
Je ne comprends RIEN aux décisions de Macron par rapport à la jeunesse et leur éducation. Aucune vision, beaucoup d’autoritarisme. C’est un mystère, effrayant.
@john_lichfield
Exactly this. Why would France take a very considerable risk when recent restrictions (so painful for citizens and the economy) have been working?