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Clinically cynical. Room for nuance.

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@vicderbyshire @BBCOne Fantastic performance. High quality political interviewing at last.

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@DanielKebedeNEU 8 days of striking to then roll over and let the Tories tickle your tummy. Spin it however you can but your lot have been played like a fiddle. It’s not even a soft win.

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@EmathsUK HTs should not be teaching regularly unless absolutely necessary. Their role is incredibly demanding as it is without throwing more in there.

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@thatteacherguy_ That the massive chancer @DanielKebedeNEU is in such a senior position too says it all. Jobs for the boys and nothing to do with teaching.

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@kimturner70 @ella2403ty @Wanga14 @Framheadteacher All that in a tweet? The original post clearly mentions a pattern of absence on Fridays. This is not due to SEN barriers, it’s down to poor parenting.

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@Willbox26 @keithrjones @JackBailey2 @PoliticsForAlI @tnewtondunn This demonstrates an astonishing level of ignorance.

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@Willbox26 @keithrjones @JackBailey2 @PoliticsForAlI @tnewtondunn What is your experience of spending time in schools other than having, I’d assume, been to one? You seem to be quite busy here telling working professionals what they should think about a sector they’ve worked in for many years.

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@Listlad @smithsmm This is fundamentally flawed. The quality of a school’s provision during lockdown is both hard to objectively measure for comparative purposes(my point all along) and far from the only variable in present cohort attainment after the fact.

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@Listlad @smithsmm Existing frameworks exist to do exactly what you describe; that’s not the issue at hand. You’re advocating retrospective criteria application to what was a fast changing unprecedented situation so schools can be shamed. It’s unfortunate you’re not seeing the distinction.

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@Listlad @smithsmm And you present no rebuttal to any of the points that have been made on this matter. It’s utterly bizarre that you would discount the plethora of responses to the original post by those working within the sector with first hand knowledge with a crude generalisation.

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@Listlad @smithsmm There has never been a criteria for curriculum delivery in case of extended school closure. Imposing one retrospectively and using it to then publish judgements is absurd. Schools face myriad barriers to remote delivery. A homogenous criteria would be intrinsically unfair.

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@Listlad @smithsmm Measured against what criteria exactly?

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@lifeanddress @AyoCaesar I’m all for solutions but only if they’re feasible. ‘Feature picking’ doesn’t work, particularly when implementation is in large asynchronous systems. It’s been trialled before with, at best, moderate success e.g forest schools/Shanghai maths.

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@tes Likely an unpopular take on this:

I inherited a school with around 35% of teaching staff working part-time. It's a logistical nightmare in terms of organising staff training/INSET, expensive and we're hamstrung by communication issues between individual teachers.