Your morning read is this piece I wrote for @eduint about how teacher workload, and curriculum reform, are so overwhelming they distract us from our core job, teaching students.
https://t.co/LKiUMhSzBd
I wrote about where we are after 1p years of Junior Cycle English.
Spoiler: not in a great place.
I tried to keep it short but it still runs over a bit.
I could have written a few thousand words more...
https://t.co/HYjkHXUj8t
If you think us teachers are a bit over the top in our reaction to exam papers, have a look at the title of this section, in a purely written exam.
Written in a silent exam hall.
This is the nonsense we are dealing with.
In 410 AD, the Goths sacked Rome
History remembers them as barbarians who destroyed the greatest empire on earth
But they weren't barbarians — they were Rome's own soldiers, betrayed by their masters
And they would continue Rome’s legacy
This is the true story of the Goths 🧵
@dom_lucre Sorry but if that was Dublin she was responding to a judge here letting a man off for a serious assault on a woman. It’s all over the news. Pearl jam did the same the night before. Just context in the void.