Kelly #JohnsonOut #notmybrexit 💙 #notoracism

Equality for all, no place for rasicm. Politically homeless. Lead or take heed.

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@elonmusk Governments asked for this though?

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@Strickomaster It’s not schools, it’s not parents, it’s not teachers , it’s not children - it’s government and profiteering academies to blame!

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@SimplyVeggie Agree we don’t need an app - we need a working service where the gp’s listen and use precaution when needed rather than oh don’t worry come back if it gets worse. Personally our receptions are great but gp’s to text book

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@OllyMetcalfe Hmm 12k pa as a company secretary for her husbands company. Let’s be real you are not getting a private school place with 12k pa only income - get outta here

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@piersmorgan It’s what governments wanted! Remember

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@ShakinthatChalk Secondary uniform yes- what’s wrong with just a jumper. Blazers, ties rubbish

[Steve B @75ThunderRoad]

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On paper, she became a "persistent absentee", a "school refuser" and an attendance statistic.

Crude data aside, she was a vulnerable girl in a crisis.

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@LeeBraganza I think pull ups would prolong them learning as it’s absorbing so they don’t know they are going at night so can’t get into the habit of stopping. But obvs hard with a baby too

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When did we allow mobile phones in school , at what point and more over why? #banmobilesinschool #mentalhealth #EducationMatters

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@d_mathieson The fact normal money can’t be used on public transport 🤷‍♀️

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@SchoolsWeek @bphillipsonMP All for it if it rids us of academies! There failing children. Anyone ever seen a headteacher in an academy. Bring back LA schools!!

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#2weekhalfterm in October. I don’t get it? Children are still settling so two weeks doesn’t fit right. Plus it’s cold and dark . Much prefer to keep the 6 summer weeks

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@DeputyGrocott Either that or your beer is being watered down

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@DeputyGrocott This is why teen mental health is so poor at the moment! Teens have been stereotyped, places and spaces for teens eroded. Very sad. Same stereotypers will complain that teens are home all the time. Hate to be a teen right now 😢

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@DeputyGrocott Here here 👏👏👏👏👏

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@MartinSLewis Increases for employers = increases in products and services

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@MartinSLewis Kinda needed to unfreeze it today to keep in line with their budget for workers- not feeling any benefit

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

I was talking to a grandmother last week about schooling. ‘I can see the difference’ she said. ‘When my children were young, primary school was relaxed. If the weather was good, they went outside and ran around. If they were sick, they stayed at home. Now with my grandchildren they are seated in desks for more of the day and if they are ill, they are worried that they’ll lose their 100% attendance for the term. The pressure is on to pass their phonics test when they are six and then to learn their times tables at speed by the time they are nine. They feel it and their parents feel it too’.

There’s lots of talk about SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) at the moment, and how increasing numbers of children are being identified as SEND. It’s less common to ask questions about what SEND really means, and whether the education system creates more children ‘with SEND’ as it becomes more pressured and rigid.

For what SEND really means is that a child cannot learn in the way which mainstream education expects. They cannot keep up with expectations, either for academic work or for behaviour. SEND is something which happens in the interaction between a child and the education system. In a system where no 6-year-old is expected to sit still and learn to write their name, then a 6-year-old who just wants to run around outside isn't a problem. In a system where everyone is meant to be able to read by age 6, then they are.

We know from research that if a child is young in their year, they are more likely to be identified as ‘having SEND’. We know that summer born boys are far more likely to be identified as ‘having SEND’ than autumn born girls. We know that the impact of this immaturity resonates through the years, with the youngest in the year doing less well at GCSE. We know that the number of children ‘with SEND’ is going up year on year.

It's not really plausible that more children each year have difficulties in learning, nor that being born in August makes you more likely to have learning problems than if you are born a few weeks later in September.

It’s far more likely that in the push to ‘drive up standards’ the education system is becomes less, not more, suited to how children develop and learn. It’s more likely that the system is penalising immaturity – and children are inherently immature. That isn’t a lack or a defect, it’s a defining part of childhood.

As the education system becomes more rigid and pressured, we’d expect more children not to be able to manage without adaptations. This is exactly what we see. Those children are holding up the flag for all the others, saying that this system is not child-friendly and doesn’t take account of developmental needs and differences.

What if, instead of having higher expectations of the children, we had higher expectations of the education system? What if those expectations were of flexibility, reducing pressure and prioritising lifelong learning and wellbeing instead of short-term testing?

What if we saw the increasing number of children ‘with SEND’ as a sign that the system isn’t working for the many ways in which children develop, rather than a sign that more and more children have learning difficulties? We’ll never sort the ‘SEND crisis’ until we start looking at SEND as an interaction between children and the education system. The more rigid the system is, the more children it will fail.

Illustration by @_MissingTheMark from the book A Different Way to Learn.

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@RebeccaCNReid Cost and our society is not generally as child friendly as it used to be! The pressures on parents are higher than they used to be. Mothers need to work, childcare is unaffordable- list goes on

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Why are headteachers now as elusive as gps?