Monsieur Durrant 🦡 🦔 🐽

DHT and MFL teacher #pastoral #thefuturehaschanged #worldschooling #futureofassessment #internationaleducation

[Monsieur Durrant 🦡 🦔 🐽 @DHTDurrant]

My posts are getting less than a hundred views. What’s that all about?

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86 people have seen this. 86???

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Happy birthday to me!!

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Happy birthday to me!!

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Happy birthday to me!!

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@Kalil_R91 😂

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https://t.co/Cl8tXNQ2yL
I mean SERIOUSLY! They have SEEN Star Wars have they?

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@Dale_Chu @amolrajan Ha! No way. I have been using exactly this analogy all week with parents trying to combat student use of AI.
Pretty sure I made it up actually. Tell her she needs to credit me please.

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@engteacherabro2 @SPryke2 Agreed

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“This train has been cancelled due to lack of train crew.”
Translate this into a school context and see what happens.

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We learn to fit in by watching what happens to those who don’t. Do we? Blimey that’s got me thinking. I don’t think that’s something I do. Not that I’m necessarily known for being compliant.

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

I read a book about neurodiversity recently which claimed to be inclusive.

It was inclusive in many ways. The people whose stories were in those pages were racially and ethnically diverse. They had different sexualities and gender identities. They had a range of different backgrounds and careers.

What was missing was anyone with intellectual disabilities. Anyone who lived in a residential setting. Anyone who had attended a special school as a child and had never learnt to read or write. Anyone who lived in a non-western country. They weren’t just missing, there was no reference to them at all.

And, crucially, it was not inclusive of anyone who disagreed with certain ideological premises. No one who thought that we need subgroups in the autism spectrum, for example. No one who thought that perhaps overdiagnosis might be a problem. No one who questioned what neurodivergence actually meant. No one who argued for functioning labels.

Despite the claims of inclusivity, it was a strangely homogenous group. And here is one of the paradoxes of neurodiversity. There’s the appearance of diversity and inclusivity, but there’s a conformity of opinion. Everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet. Book after book is published with exactly the same assumptions.

Humans are social beings and we want to fit in. We learn to do this by watching what happens to those who don’t. It’s just too risky to do anything else. Don’t mistake this conformity for an objective truth. It’s a bit more complicated than that.

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Family museum??

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@DextterUtd Roy Keane speaks his mind but fuck me he speaks my mind too. Just like he did on the pitch.

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@LeeBraganza @Mr_H1978 lol

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@SPryke2 Dude, all this stuff is amazing, I'm literally living off you at them moment 😂 Thanks so much!!

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@RufusWilliam @ryandal Errr, no.

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"You can't HANDLE the truth!"

[Mouhssin Ismail OBE @Mouhssin_Ismail]

This isn’t criticism, it’s a hatchet job. We should not pander to individuals or groups whose demands risk dismantling exceptional schools. I’ve visited both Mossbourne schools, and they are outstanding institutions.

If parents are genuinely unhappy, they have the option of moving their children elsewhere. Yet many choose to stay because they value the academic outcomes while objecting to the discipline and standards that underpin them. You cannot demand the results while rejecting the very approach that delivers them.

And to those who believe they can achieve the same outcomes through a different approach, establish your own school and demonstrate that it works. Otherwise, stay in your lane and allow those who have built exceptional institutions to get on with the job.

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@RufusWilliam Nice. Me too, first degree. Then Institute of Education for my PGCE. When was that then?

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@RufusWilliam IoE? Me too.

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@MissEmmaTurner Get her to look them both up here

https://t.co/SlFZQSmn94

and see which is easiest to remember/tap out.

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@ShakinthatChalk Ah. Have now read your last post and voted.