I’ve cast my vote in the online ballot. Thanks for the nudge @EISUnion 👍🏼
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Let the union know that enough of us care about making teaching a sustainable and worthwhile career, not a job that leads to burnout within the first 5 years. #SU4QE
Every year I am blown away by the achievements of @BramptonManor1.
(I’m not even bitter about the times they beat us at netball when I was at a nearby high school).
Truly, truly remarkable. These young people will go on to do great things.
Brampton Manor Academy Sixth Form Class of 2025: A beautiful harvest of A*/A grades and best ever results. Massive congratulations to the over 250 students that achieved straight A*/A grades.
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague
The apathy being shown towards footage of children dying and people starving is heartbreaking and should transcend any ideology. There are people in power who could surely stop this. This is all. (2/2)
Dear Hatem,
Today, I had a dream that I was teaching in a classroom. The students were your classmates from 7th grade when I taught you all back in 2021. I asked a question and waited a few seconds. No one raised their hand. And then—I started to weep.
I wept because I realized you were no longer with us. I knew that if you were there, you would’ve raised your hand before I even finished the question, a smile on your face.
I asked your classmates if they knew what happened to you. They all said, “Yes.”
I’m writing this to you, Hatem, from Syracuse, in upstate New York—the same city where I lived when you used to call me in the fall of 2022, asking, “When are you coming back? Will you be my teacher again when you return?”
I remember walking down Euclid Avenue one day on my way to the library. I offered to turn my camera on to show you the university buildings as I walked. You loved the view—the trees, the open space. You saw students playing tennis on the court. I think you even saw a squirrel. You admired the cars and asked, “Do you ever hear drones?” You were in your home in Beit Hanoun, where the sound of drones never left the sky.
I told you we only hear passenger planes here, planes coming to or leaving Syracuse. You told me you’d never seen one. I said, “I hadn’t either—not until I left Gaza for the first time in 2019.”
I also told you something else:
“Hatem, you are one of my most talented students ever. If you keep going like this, I believe you’ll come to Syracuse, or to another university that would be lucky to have you.”
I don’t know why I’m telling you all this now. You didn’t appear in my dream today. But I’m writing this letter to invite you to come visit me in the next one. Come answer the question I asked. Come smile and raise your hand.
I’m waiting for you, Hatem.
In Syracuse.
Your teacher,
Mosab
(Hatem was murdered while searching for firewood on Oct 5, 2024)
We're outraged and heartbroken by reports that at least 15 Palestinians, including eight children, have been killed in an Israeli strike. They were queuing for nutritional supplements outside of a clinic.
Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Project Hope, an aid group who ran the clinic, say it was "a place of refuge... where people bring their small children, women access pregnancy and postpartum care, people receive treatment for malnutrition".
The UK government must stop being complicit in these horrors by suspending all arms transfers to Israel. They must hold the Government of Israel accountable for the harm children have faced, as is demanded by their obligations under international law.
@TelGolden@DavidDidau Israel stole land. Flattened Palestinian villages then covered them with non-indigenous trees to create hiking trails for Israelis and to cover up the massacres. This is an ongoing purposeful “cleansing” that started in 1948. Conflation of Judaism with Zionism is dangerous.
@DavidDidau I’m not sure if it’s this platform, or a reflection of the state of things in England…
Israel’s actions must be condemned. Autopsies have proven that Palestinian children are being targeted.
Solidarity with 🇵🇸 not a controversial stance in Scotland.
Haven’t used Twitter since it was called Twitter, really.
Pushed a new button and this lovely summary of “me” appeared 😂
Of course you’ve made the cut @AnnaGrantENG ❤️🔥