Tom Hill

Head of Sixth Form & Teaching & Learning lead 📈🎓📖 International Relations, Diplomacy & Geopolitics geek 🌍

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Narrator: but it totally could, just like every other hot country.

[Royal Mail @RoyalMail]

Moving home?

Remember to redirect your mail ✉️ https://t.co/DgDFRfZ1Hk

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

🧵There’ll likely be a rush to call British public ungovernable in the wake of Starmer’s resignation. But blaming the voters is a cop out, and imo the reason for 5 PMs in 6 years is that all of them stuffed up in avoidable ways. Going through them:

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Think this is unarguably Reform’s worst night since General Election.
1) Barely any increase in their vote share in Makerfield. 20pt Labour win in a seat that was one of their best second places in 2024.
2) Tories show proof of life and even momentum in battle for the right with Aberdeen South win
3) Restore Britain take 7%, replicated elsewhere in fragmented politics Reform’s path to govt becomes very very hard.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

The deal with Iran will go down as one of the most incompetent ever made. The U.S. lost on virtually every point. We just don't win anymore!

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Wes Streeting isn't daft.

He knew that bringing up reversing Brexit would be deeply uncomfortable for his Labour leadership rival Andy Burnham, who also wants to rejoin but doesn't want to talk about it in a by-election campaign in Leave-voting Makerfield.

https://t.co/gyg1fHrouu

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

I interviewed a teacher 3 years ago who decided to leave early.

Why did you resign?

“I have a Master’s degree & worked really hard for my students. I loved teaching kids and was good at it. I did it for a low salary. All of that and I had never felt so disrespected by so many.”

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Fantastic news, and a huge step in the right direction. Get phones out of schools. They are compulsive attention hoovers with enormous safeguarding risks. I’ve never seen a school regret binning them entirely. Not once.

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

@rpondiscio One of the (many) mystifying things about US education is why teachers and schools are held accountable for students’ scores on tests for which the students are not accountable…

[MsWalsh @ms_katywalsh]

“… teachers are having to teach a cohort of children who’ve come from low-boundary environments where, for instance, they think they can do what they want and that they’re the most important person in the room and that their feelings are the only feelings that matter”.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

If someone had told me that 2026 would see Iran posting AI videos of Jesus beating up Trump, I'd have assumed they were on drugs

[Tom Hill @Tom_Hill95]

The government has spent well over a decade being hard on schools regarding attendance. When is it going to start being hard on parents? It's tantamount to child abuse.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Number of pupils missing more than half of school hits another record high https://t.co/VWWSIcc8S8

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

The whole nonsense of inspection needs ripping down. Emperor’s New Clothes. It’s all horseshit - reaching valid/reliable high stakes judgements about a school based on a short visit by strangers who couldn’t do a better job but presume to judge. What a job .. demoralise a community of professionals with zero responsibility for the fallout and then leave, spouting crap about being champions of disadvantaged children. The delusion of it. 😡

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

I know my answer to this but I’m curious about what others think: when I was a kid, my parents would have reflexively sided with the teacher if I misbehaved in school. What’s changed and why?

[Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov]

Agree with this. Formerly one of the reasons parents valued school was that it forced/helped their children to learn to regulate their own desires in order to conform to the needs of the group. They saw that as something that would help their children succeed and participate in institutional endeavor for the rest of their lives. Now parents are just as likely to be outraged by any situation in which their child has to suborn his or her own desires to the needs of the group.

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

Three historical lessons about bombing campaigns and regime change:

[Bodil Isaksen @BodilUK]

@tombennett71 @Docstockk I am really concerned about this - it’s become so prolific on gentle parenting groups etc. even with very small kids. Your kid is not PDA, he is 3 years old!

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Increasingly seeing Pathological Demand Avoidance being used in school discourse. This article by the excellent @Docstockk nails my issues with it.

1. It has no diagnostic basis. It’s colloquial, not clinical, but it *sounds* clinical.
2. Its unfalsifiable. How do you know if someone doesn’t have it?
3. It can easily lead into endlessly negotiating with children when we should be directing and insisting- and inevitably it leads to a weakening of consequences and responsibility.

If a child says, ‘I won’t’, don’t reach for a label

https://t.co/xzsgElD7NI

[David Barber @drum980]

@tombennett71 One disregulated child cannot be prioritied over the class. We’ve gone down a rabbit hole with this and we need a reset. All children need understanding and compassion but allowing such behaviour serves no one, least of all the child who’s disrupting everyone else