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4 years

We're having takeaway and champagne tonight despite my daughter losing her university place. We are so proud of how hard she worked and her utter dignity and bravery in handling today's outrageously unfair outcome over which she had no control. Imagine being complicit in this!

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@juliearandall @Nigel_Farage Sadly you can't distribute copies in carriages whilst you are boycotting the company. Please research joined-up thinking

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3 years

@BBCBreakfast @BBCNews Members of the Patel extended family on hearing this news

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7 months

Please can somebody at @Ofstednews explain why primary schools are being judged RI for ineffective subject leadership when these teachers have full time classroom responsibilities & there is insufficient funding for cover? You are penalising schools for government underfunding.

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3 years

We are deeply saddened to report the passing on 20th November 2020 of The Nolan Principles aged 25, which died peacefully surrounded by a bunch of immoral, irresponsible, unaccountable incompetents. They will be buried on Page 29 of The Daily Telegraph next Wednesday at noon. RIP

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6 years

I might be old fashioned but I get far more comfort from reading that my daughter is polite, hard working, and a pleasure to teach than any of her grades or progress results.

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6 years

I'm glad Nick Gibb has confirmed 400,000 more Northern kids are in good or outstanding schools because of his government's reforms. I'd hate anybody to suggest it might be down to brilliant teaching and excellent leadership

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5 years

It would be nice in 2019 if all teachers & educators could, at least on occasions, articulate the fact they actually like children, enjoy teaching them,& derive huge personal pleasure from being in their company. They really aren't the enemy As a parent I think that's reasonable.

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3 years

Dear Gavin Williamson Thanks for listening and closing schools as vectors of transmission However by making everybody a key worker, or denying laptops to the neediest, lots of schools are nearly full. When exactly do you think the NHS will drown? Yours sincerely Education

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5 days

If we were to start education from scratch, would we have hormonal teenagers doing endless exams at the height of the hay fever season? Would we have teenagers doing exams at all?

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3 years

Dear @amanda_spielman @Ofstednews Please can you explain EXACTLY how primary teachers can develop deep subject knowledge without affecting work-life balance (EIF2019) when the budget won't fund teachers to cover their classes? Thanks A Governor

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Neil Yates

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4 years

Interesting. Lancashire tonight advising schools not to reopen June 1st due to government's five tests not having been met. Big LA. Lots of schools.

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5 years

The primary function of a grassroots football coach is to develop a lifelong love of the game based on mass participation and fun. This can never be achieved by excluding children of perceived lesser ability. This is not an elite sport. This is football for all.

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3 years

The DfE can try to sue us for closing early for Christmas. Thankfully due to a decade of chronic underfunding of state education we have no money left to pay any fines. English education in 2020.

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4 years

@MaryBoustedNEU As Chair of Governors I would resign before requiring staff to go back to school unless there was incontrovertible evidence that it was safe to so do. Well-being and safety trumps everything else in our school. We care about people more than anything else.

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3 years

I hope Amanda Spielman reflects it was worth it to alienate the teaching profession for the sake of twenty four hours.

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4 years

Those seething about Carol services, Christmas parties, DVD viewings, and card making as opposed to formal instruction right up until Friday at 3.30pm would do well to remember this. Got lots of children Christmas at home will not be a pleasant experience. It may involve 1/

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3 years

In January 2020 I challenged Our OFSTED inspector ( who was lovely) to please ask her bosses how primary school teachers were expected to develop a much deeper knowledge of the subjects on which they led without in any way adding to their workload, and adversely impacting 1/

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4 years

Do you believe that Boris Johnson is proving himself to be an effective Prime Minister? Please retweet having completed.

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@EJWoolf @Nigel_Farage "Hello Emma this is Specsavers. Your annual appointment is now overdue."

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1 year

The hard right hate Lineker and Rashford for the same reasons they hate teachers. Because they use their intelligence and influence to shine a light on injustice and promote humanity and values instead. They are terrified that their knuckle-dragging supporters might see the truth

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3 years

I'm genuinely perplexed as a governor about the removal of many Covid safety measures in schools. I know the directives but I am an advocate for children. Can I justify dissent if I believe children and our precious staff are not being sufficiently safeguarded? How far can I go?

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3 years

If a child makes an accusation against a teacher then believe the teacher Children are born bad. This is the ideology of a headteacher and our social mobility tsar. Does anybody see a safeguarding risk here?

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3 years

teachers and leaders at inspection around subject knowledge. We cannot take teachers out of classes because we cannot afford to. Please give us solutions @Ofstednews rather than adverse and critical judgements 3/3

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3 years

Today there will be numerous house parties of more than fifteen people in confined spaces with inadequate ventilation and no PPE. Some people call them nurseries and schools.

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5 years

I have decided after this week's @bbcquestiontime I will not be watching again. What used to be an engaging political debate has been replaced by a bigoted, ill- informed, boorish shouting fest. The rent a gob audience members, hand picked, are utterly insufferable.

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4 years

@hendopolis @informed_edu Chair of Governors here. I need convincing of relative safety before we agree to anything. We will NOT put our wonderful people in danger for political or economic reasons.

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Neil Yates

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2 years

Quietly, diligently & lovingly, teachers & school leaders up & down the country are doing an amazing job of educating & bringing up the nation's children. Without any self-publicity, without inviting controversial figures, without resorting to draconian policies. Thank you.

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Neil Yates

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4 years

Volunteers in grassroots football are currently under quite intolerable pressure to try and keep the game going. The very least we can all do to repay them is make sure we adhere strictly to the guidelines. This is not normal football. We are under licence. Let's not lose it.

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4 years

And no amount of humbuggery from the pedagogically puritanical scrooge will make me change my mind. Our job is to help make children feel better and safer not just to make them no more. Thanks to all our exhausted but wonderful school staff making memories this week. 3/

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5 years

Parents. If half of you are hammering the Head on social media for opening in adverse weather, and the other half are critical when he or she shuts it, what bloody chance do they have?

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5 years

We can't win the arguments in youth football until everybody accepts that the children are far more important than the football. Too many adults still lose sight of that very simple choice.

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3 years

The fact that some children would be disadvantaged by having limited or no access to blended learning is not a fault of schools. It is a legacy of a decade of austerity where the poor have got poorer and state education has been systematically underfunded.

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4 years

Thanks to the hundreds of people so genuinely interested in Number Two daughter. She has this afternoon accepted an offer to study Law and Criminology at the University of Manchester, her first choice, having had her grades adjusted to reflect her CAGs. We are all delighted.

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1 month

@brexitforexit A more sustainable way of freeing up room in this country would be to expel you and all the other racists and bigots, masquerading as patriots, displaying all the ideologies our forefathers fought world wars against. You have no values. You bring no value.

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3 years

Imagine if a school governing board received its annual budget & then systematically carved it up amongst family members to deliver goods & services of which it had no experience or expertise. It would be summarily dismissed, replaced and possibly prosecuted. Government? Nothing.

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1 year

On a visit to Lancashire yesterday, the Prime Minister claimed fewer children were in poverty than in 2010. I've just checked the Child Poverty Action Group website. The number has increased by 600,000. Who should I believe?

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4 years

@2015Shaggy @JuliaHB1 Please add Ofqual and ALevel students

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4 years

arguments or violence. There may be precious little in the way if gifts. Christmas Dinner might be a foodbank parcel. If school is able to bring a little of the magic of Christmas, some joy or some hope into their miserable lives for a few days in late Advent then I say great. 2/

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3 years

If you're a parent or carer at youth football shouting instructions incessantly to your children then know this: They hate it It affects their enjoyment It inhibits their development Now you can make an informed choice. Boost your own ego or support your own child.

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Neil Yates

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6 years

I don't suppose @educationgovuk ministers are watching #School tonight? That's the human consequence of your inability to fund your schools. Real people losing jobs that impact adversely on real children.

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4 years

Grassroots football parents. Are you paying for coaching or to be club members? Hopefully the latter. Please don't cancel standing orders or payments if football activity is halted. Clubs still need the money to continue to exist.

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1 year

OFSTED Inspection report 2025...."whilst the curriculum is broad, balanced and impactful, it does not draw sufficiently on the core materials supplied by Oak Academy. This detracts from teaching and learning outcomes for children in this school."

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6 months

I've just been thrown out of a governors ' meeting for using lined paper, wearing unbranded jeans and moving the bin next to me. Any idea what's going on?

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4 years

Sorry if this upsets people. No, actually I'm not. I want children to see school as a safe, fun, exciting and stimulating place from Monday to Friday. I don't want children to see school as a weekend detention centre preventing time with family and participation in sport etc.

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3 years

I have to say this. When did the phrase "reach out" become a thing? It irritates me intensely. Why can't we just say "contact," "speak to," or "write to?"

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6 years

I never thought I'd see the day when Headteachers marched on Downing Street to demand adequate funding for state education. Not union activists or Marxists. Headteachers. Are you watching @DamianHinds and @NickGibbUK ? While you fantasise about grammars, our system is crumbling

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Neil Yates

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7 years

On what possible level could anybody object to a lower league club chairman pointing out grotesque reality of agent taking £41m out of game?

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5 years

If you're an adult on the touchline this morning please don't tell your child how to play. Don't shout instructions. Matchday is the opportunity to show what they've learned in training. It's the performance. Your job is simply praise, encouragement and reinforcement. Thank you.

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4 years

To those right wingers wringing their hands at the lack of educational provision for children Where were you when families started having to use foodbanks Where were you when families struggled to receive benefits Where were you when schools had insufficient funding to help kids

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3 years

They've got Covid in schools badly wrong again haven't they?

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3 years

work-life balance. You see both are explicitly referenced in the 2019 inspection framework with only half a day per term allocated for subject leadership development. Two years on neither she no her employers have suggested how this is possible. Yet they are still criticising 2/

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5 years

@JohnHyde1982 @SugaredPill Shameful. Both could have passed through had they not recessed early to mask Johnson's gross incompetence. I hope complicit MPs apologise to current & future domestic violence victims.

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Neil Yates

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6 years

Spent all day yesterday on a parent complaint. Today I switch my attention to another one. My whole weekend and not paid a single penny. Replicated by governors nationally. Even during school holidays. Don't want money. Just acknowledgement.

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3 years

So Boris Johnson apparently attended several meetings with the priest to prepare him for marriage but couldn't attend several COBRA meetings to prepare us for a pandemic.

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1 year

@IsabelOakeshott The fact Hancock asked you to ghost write his book shows his lack of judgement. The fact you leaked his private messages shows your lack of trustworthiness. Either way neither of you is deserving of any public office or platform.

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1 year

Let's be clear. OFSTED is not the reason headteachers are getting ill or leaving the profession. The government is. The government has the power to overhaul the inspection regime, the stress it induces and the catastrophic impact it can have on schools. It chooses not to.

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4 years

@MarinaHyde One guy has done more for the nation's children in the last two months than the entire Cabinet.

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1 year

@educationgovuk Unfunded. You were asking teachers to vote for colleagues being made redundant to subsidise your pay offer.

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5 years

@piersmorgan @bbcquestiontime My takeaway from yours is that generally Britain views Trump as a buffoon, is hopelessly divided on Brexit, thinks Corbyn's labour is unelectable, and is increasingly mindful of mental health issues and the need especially for men to talk about it

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4 years

If schools have been told a broad and balanced curriculum is not essential from June 1st then it drives a coach and horses through the theory that return is an educational necessity to combat disadvantage. It is simply mere childcare to allow parents to work.

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20 days

I need to get this off my chest. If I question a strict or zero tolerant behavioural regime in a school, I am NOT school shaming. In the majority of cases, I do not know which school is being pictured or discussed. I question it because I compare it with the bright, joyful 1/

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6 years

I asked a teacher I know well about traditional v progressive education. She's not heard of either. When I summarised and told her she must be one or the other she laughed and said she was both. Every day in every subject dependent on context.

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1 year

@educationgovuk @GillianKeegan Your department under this & the previous 38 Tory education secretaries have brought us to this point. The English education system has become almost financially unsustainable whilst teachers have been undervalued & indeed denigrated by your colleagues & client journalists

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2 years

Many schools are fully functioning and flourishing societies without resorting to draconian or punitive penalties for the most trivial of infractions. You're communities not penal institutions. Work at relationships. Promote individual and collective responsibility.

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7 years

@TRobinsonNewEra @piersmorgan Only people listening to you Tommy are rampant racists & those like you who are frightened of foreigners. Go & meet Muslims. Lovely people

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6 years

The vast majority of teachers I have ever spoken to tell me the only people who debate traditional v progressive teaching are a handful of ideologues. The others just get on with teaching our kids really well.

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5 years

It's rare I'm lost for words but she's only gone and won! So proud after the desperate historic disappointments on that stage. Two daughters going to the World Championships in America. I'm off to negotiate a second mortgage

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@piersmorgan People reclining on boats on the Cote D'Azur are possibly less likely to fear No Deal than those using foodbanks or reliant on life preserving drugs. You have simply become another right wing populist.

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7 years

@mikestanek @JaPenn56 Hate to over-react but doesn't this sound suspiciously fascist ?

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5 years

@Jamal_Barry @BBCr4today @SuellaBraverman Yes imagine working class Northerners being part of the elite and Jacob Rees Mogg and Sir William Cash being outside it. Mere plebs.

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3 years

@Chirpygeezer @Telegraph @bruce_bwkm @allisonpearson Yes Vic. And I know people in receipt of regular bollockings who took their own lives. Was their upper lip not quite stiff enough?

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A Boeing 777-200 can carry 440 passengers plus crew. Imagine if a capacity plane had gone down in the Channel yesterday. Imagine the headlines. Yesterday Coronavirus claimed a similar number of British lives yet it hardly features as a story any more. May they rest in peace.

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5 years

I know this is delicate but imagine if a large number of gay men turned up outside a school demanding children were not taught about Islam because they might become terrorists and it is not age appropriate. Equality is a fundamental right not something we pick and choose.

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3 years

I haven't yet seen one teacher who has complained about post-lockdown behaviour or obsessive habits around phones. This is quite simply the regressives seizing an opportunity to exert greater authoritarian control over children, because they know no other way. #UselessGav

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15 days

Just been to the polling station. Eleven per cent turnout. Irrespective of your politics, that is deeply concerning.

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2 years

I don't want to rain on anybody's parade but if you'll celebrate if Johnson is ousted or walks, please take a look at the rabble around him. There is literally nobody in that Cabinet, or around it, fit to be Prime Minister and equip us for the challenges we face.

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3 years

I'd also like to pay tribute to secondary teachers who have gone way beyond reasonable expectations to ensure their students got fair grades. How dare anybody criticise your conclusions or question your integrity?

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4 years

I've lived around here for over forty years and never knew we had so many families with young male quadruplets and quintuplets

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3 years

Amidst all the furore about tattoos and the arguments about house names, how wonderfully refreshing that a Head consulted his students, trusted their maturity, respected their decisions and empowered them to implement change. Magnificent leadership. The rest is right wing drivel.

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4 years

Dear Children's Commissioner... Teachers & governors are not squabbling. They have very genuine fears about the safety of children & adults from what is very possibly a premature return of lots of children. You are in a privileged position. You need to be careful with language.

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7 months

I wonder what the Home Office will say when they realise a large number of those sleeping on the streets are ex-servicemen and women, often with PTSD. Might be a tougher culture war than usual.

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Dear @Conservatives To those of you proclaiming the risen Lord today, read these words from one of the world's foremost leaders. I know I must do much better to reach such high standards. How do you reflect on this, on our triumphant, holy day?

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3 years

Thanks to the brilliant and tenacious work of @ajjolley we now know that @educationgovuk deliberately fixed pupil premium funding to deprive nearly all schools and disadvantaged children of critical funding. Utterly despicable. Wholly predictable

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3 years

If you still support Johnson after all this time please read Animal Farm. It might just become apparent that all you are to him are useful idiots.

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2 years

Today 199 people died with Covid. Eighteen months ago we mourned such A huge daily loss of life. Now it seems nobody cares. Do you? #RIP

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3 years

To be fair to Gavin Williamson it is easy to mistake two people sometimes

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@speedybn1968 @JuliaHB1 I'd rather cede a bit of sovereignty to have a voice in an organisation that has kept Europe together since 1945 than live on a financially crippled island with no friends or trading partners. Why are you lot so scared of foreigners?

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4 years

OBITUARY. On Sunday 24th May 2020, fortified by the Daily Telegraph, and surrounded by hypocrites, the Nolan Principles of standards in public life passed away peacefully. Cremation on Tuesday will sadly be restricted to six, distanced mourners unless Cummings arranges a coach.

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Virtually every school I've worked with this year, is predicted to be in the red by 2026. A 6.5% pay award, unless funded to the last penny by central government, will accelerate those days of reckoning considerably. Now's the time for Keegan and Gibb to put up or shut up.

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7 years

@talkSPORTDrive Got to hand it to you Adrian, you immediately assess each situation, identify populist line & instantly take opposite stance

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8 months

I might be wrong but it seems to me that some of the more extreme multi-academy trusts are not accountable to anybody, can treat staff and students appallingly with impunity, & enrich chief executives and senior staff. Meanwhile government looks the other way or ennobles CEOs.

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5 years

I appreciate its not that simple but reading of a school losing ALL TAs whilst a CEO earns nearly £500k pa is not a good look I'm afraid for a state education system.

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6 years

End of an awful week. I have wine. But more importantly we have been showered in support and good wishes. You will never know just how lovely even the briefest messages are in such times. God bless you all xx

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My octogenarian mother is ill in bed with Covid. She had her booster two months ago. I believe this has kept her out of hospital. We all owe it to the NHS and society to get our vaccinations. We can all care for others rather than ourselves.

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6 years

If I could rid English education of one phrase it would be British values. Surely we can come up with something more inclusive and less arrogant?

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2 years

@sharrond62 Why do we need to wage these silly gender wars? Male, female or non-binary. Straight, gay or trans. Just be kind to other people. If we can all do that, we can remedy logistical matters consensually and collaboratively. Life is too short for hatred. We are all humans.

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I assume under the new DfE guidance that teachers can confirm Russia has invaded Ukraine but cannot discuss the situation given there are two sides to the invasion and to criticise Putin would be political?

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Tomorrow the government will sack the Civil Servant who tweeted officially that they were truth twisters. A fact Today the government totally exonerated Cummings saying he adhered to guidelines given concern for his son. A fiction. If you voted Tory, this is what you enabled.

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At a recent inspection @Ofstednews I asked HMI how we can reasonably expect greater subject knowledge in primary without adversely impacting on their workload and hence well-being which is also an implicit expectation. She was unable to answer. Are you able to answer please?

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