NigelP

International schools, former UK Headteacher, sometime radio host,

[NigelP @P6NCP]

I am leaving. The final straw was Musk calling Ed Davey a "snivelling little cretin". Unbelievable. Musk has no class. X has become a cess pit. I'm now on Bluesky - same handle p6ncp. Bye

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@Strickomaster We used to have up to 10 days HT discretion: most parents would write explain & request...Heads would take a generally benevolent view esp to lower income families

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@toryboypierce @RachelReevesMP Or possibly the greedy companies reluctant to take a cut in profits after 20 yrs on the gravy/,beer train

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@SarahTheDuchess And in such terribly straitened circumstances...

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@DavidRi24396416 @Jenny_1884 Exactly who are "they"...please clarify, genuinely

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@tombennett71 Faraday pouches...only answer

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@miss_mcinerney I once shepherded a whole KS4 theatre trip across central London during the Poll Tax riots ( yes I'm very old)...dodging cans/bricks etc. That was "fun"...

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@miss_mcinerney One of my staff teams on a trip to Canada were in a mall when a shooter came in & murdered a gangsta. Kids scattered, terrifed, lost. Teachers were fab: organised, calm ,brave. "Free holidays" my arse!

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@BarbaraBleiman Totally agree...Spain has nothing like UK...Baccillerato at 16 but exams in class, marked by their teachers. It's hardly an underachieving country...we have become obsessed in UK

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@England @wembleystadium The best option would have been Gareth as a Director of Football in the stands with a proper tactical coach in the dugout

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@ReformNWL @CPugsleyReform Rees-Mogg's secret love child?

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@Iromg Maybe the concrete hasn't fully grown yet?

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@_MGosling @trinity_mat @Ofstednews At the expense of other schools outside your chain. You know this: I know this - it's the sine qua non of open enrolment

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@Headteacherchat And "World Class Schools"...

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@renewal2030 And such diversity, too

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@KirstieMAllsopp Finally something you and I can fully agree on

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@Baddiel Ok...I love you. I read "My Family". I remember Mary Whitehouse fondly. Hugh's dad even confirmed my daughter.
But I thought it was dead boring! Sorry. I still love you.

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@CathyMo41926708 @NeilDotObrien She fought her way from family breakdown, poverty, poverty of expectation, bog standard school to get to one of the best Universities in the world and emerge with seriously good qualifications ...perhaps you might be wrong?

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@NeilDotObrien Or put another way: 1/3rd of children failed at 16 due to Gove/Gibbs' strictures but the Tories never cared

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@thosethatcan It's the curriculum + the reductive exam syllabus + Heads terrified of Ofsted. I hope Becky Francis offers BP 2 options: tweaks v radical change & BP c goes radical. She won't