Tom Billingsgate

Let me take you to the place where membership's a smiling face.

[Tom Billingsgate @ConfusedTim]

@trecregin @joerichlaw I don't think you can be financially disadvantaged and pay private school fees, even before VAT was added!

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@BarryNSmith79 @ShakinthatChalk I do agree with that, it's hard to build a culture when teachers are working alone for 5/6hrs a day. But given we can't recruit/retain already, increasing hours/shortening holidays will hardly help?

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@BarryNSmith79 @ShakinthatChalk How would you square that circle then? Teachers work longer hours for more money, or children get less teaching hours over the year?

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@oldandrewuk A decent proportion of SEND diagnosis in my school is just a mask for poor behaviour and parenting.

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@cgkedu @kstanddm Dumbledore had big "Teachers should run their own detentions" energy.

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@OliverRMills @miconm Innocent people don't need to offer NDAs.

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@SarahGi78263526 I was awkwardly handed a bag of condoms by my dad when I was packing for uni, super awks, but really sensible.

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@BarryNSmith79 @ianwhite21 Admirable confidence, questionable intelligence.

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@oldandrewuk My school is under the opinion that rewriting the curriculum every two years will sort out behaviour. Oddly, it doesn't seem to be working...

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@x_coffeecup @Number10cat @AInterests97351 No such thing as a "plea deal" in the UK

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@sambisback @timmiclark @ArrEssVeeTwin @dryseagacker @oldandrewuk To clarify, you have worked in a school where a young carer was late to school due to caring responsibilities, the school knew about this and still issued and enforced a detention? When you obviously raised this with the head/chair of Governors, what did they say!?

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@mathsteacher09 @TheMathsBazaar @draustinmaths @DrFrostMaths @jemmaths May I ask what? I far prefer our Smart software, but the trust insists on ppts.

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@Soarpoints @ShakinthatChalk How can anyone in education be affexted by the annual allowance? Surely no-one is being paid that much.

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@MissHMaths8 That's an unsane amount. The books are good though, given how closely to the SoW, it makes planning a breeze.

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@dieworkwear Thoughts?

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@rachelgmarks @ShakinthatChalk @Mr_N_Wood A primary student will be in the same room with the same teacher for the whole day. A secondary student will move between 5 classrooms and 5 teachers a day. Why bother keeping track of the pen you borrowed P1 if you know your P2 teacher will give you another...

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@Quinn25174257 @PaulDuddridge @SBdeFere @IsabelOakeshott @WorldByWolf @reformparty_uk @TiceRichard From the cruel yoke of Not-Russia