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Physics teacher. Enthusiast for rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. Despite everything, it's great being a teacher.

[Victoria @MrsSTeaches]

I am fuming! Just had a conversation with a @TeachFirst trainee working in a small MAT. Rules about displays include labels all having to be handwritten in pre-cursive, borders having to be a certain number of mm wide, having to use fabric on all displays and fairy lights...

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@mc_hankins @IanDunt And he's a liar, and I'm not sure about Gove.

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@FakeHeadteacher Isn't the standard answer "SLT dealt proactively with underperformance"?

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@MikeStuchbery_ Erm... Bit of a shortage on the can front...

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@PeterMannionMP "Fuck off. Not helpful." works pretty well as a summary of current government policy.

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@PeterMannionMP @ShippersUnbound Nah, that's just Project Fear.

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@Alby Yes, there's a seating plan.

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@ruthyie @adamboxer1 @emc2andallthat Tbanks. More regenerating than stopping I hope.

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@mrbakerphysics @adamboxer1 @emc2andallthat @tombennett71 @daisychristo

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@emc2andallthat @adamboxer1 @tombennett71 @daisychristo Though ITT seemed odd in its priorities, it was OK to pay lip service and move on. The really bad bit was when schools with the power to leave you unemployable started doing regular checks of orthodoxy.

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@tombennett71 Best we can hope for now is that (1) the not-Churchill line about nations behaving wisely once they have exhausted the alternatives is true, and (2) we recognise that the alternatives are as exhausted as a parent in week 3 of the summer holidays. #notquitethereyet

[Ian Malpass @indec]

You come to a fork in the road. One side leads to chaos and ruination. The other also leads to chaos and ruination. There stand two of Trump's lawyers. One always lies. The other always lies. You may not ask any questions.

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@MathsladyScott @MrBlachford Thinking about this having spent the weekend with some (nice enough) City Lawyer types. Teaching can be viable, considering pay/pension/conditions/meaning/ethics as a whole. But if the system wants to mess with conditions+ethics, I need lots of money to compensate!

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@CantabKitty @WestRoadCH It's Cambridge. It's so PhDs can feel that there was a point to it.

[McGinty @Exfizzixteach]

@RequireImprove Yes, its not the ofsted grade that matters either. For me, it's 'can I do a good job, do they want what I can do, am I treated like crap?'

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@FearlessFred @bbcpaddy (Very easy to) Hold back the river, by Dry Dry Dry #norainsongs

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@Exfizzixteach Easier to say than to do, of course; the worst school I experienced (wouldn't wish it on any child or adult) was Ofsted Outstanding.

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@Exfizzixteach There are still non-terrible schools out there, probably more than we realise, because they have leaders and staff just able to get on with it. As the staffing crisis gets worse, they are going to have a massive advantage.

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@Exfizzixteach Fair enough- amazing how many schools don't realise that people will walk when treated badly enough.

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@etaknipsa @Lisa7Pettifer @RufusWilliam In the worst cases, I suspect it's a deliberate policy; keep people busy enough, and fearful of what they've failed to do, and it stops them arguing back. Not a model that's being celebrated as much as 5 years ago, but still out there.