Hackney Parents

Hackney Parents Defending Education: Creative schools not exam factories. Community schools not forced academies.

[Kiri Tunks @kiritunks]

Thanks @HackneyParents for tonight's education mtg. Gr8 commitment from audience to campaign @RescueSchools @RaaRedbridge @OurSchoolsLBWF

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

Keep up pressure on headteachers and governors not to open the doors to privatisation

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

Talk to grandparents, friends, family in other constituencies, particularly marginal Tory ones in the shires

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

Let's spread the word: have conversations with other parents (few people are aware that Hackney stands to lose 20% of its ed. budget)

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

'Let Kids Be Kids' strike taught us that parents will be concerned about whether teachers are supportive of the action

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

Support our teachers and build coalitions - if teachers vote to strike, join the picket lines, send emails of support to your class teacher

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

Local schools (including Stoke Newington School) have been successful in the past in fighting off academisation

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

Local schools are at the heart of our communities and we can't let them be privatised

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

Proposed legislation - 'Education for All' - can be killed if we build broad coalition based on community, public ownership, w/ teachers

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

The govt is also very susceptible to pressure from the 'Mumsnet' lobby

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

BUT: govt is weak now: climb down on academisation by statute, junior doctors' strike, Brexit all mean this is a good time to take action

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

LEAs are not allowed to build new schools; free schools can open in places where there are no shortages, competing w/local community schools

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

There are an abundance of qualified teachers in the UK but a huge number leaving profession, and catastrophic shortage of places for kids

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Excessive demands placed on teachers by testing regime: reception teacher spent 60 hours administering baseline tests which were scrapped

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

this ballot on pay & conditions is referendum about SATs, total chaos and fragmentation in the curriculum, lack of creativity and autonomy

[Hackney Parents @HackneyParents]

NUT is ballotting teachers now on strike action, ballots due 23 June, action of approved on 5 July

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@HackneyParents https://t.co/32fK6ww4HH…

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This week the UK is being grilled by a UN Committee on the RIghts of the Child; children's mental health is issue for discussion.

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@HackneyParents https://t.co/zpnDidMaI5

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PISA works w/ Pearson - global testing co. which owns Bridge Int'l ('vertically integrated Academy-in-a-box model, Starbucks-style’ school)