Deb Ventre

Mum of 2 legends | Graduated MA student | Teacher | Buddies Nursery | Early Childhood & Education | Interested in Education and Social Class| EdD Student 2023

[Dr Jenny Thatcher @JennyAThatcher]

These narratives are so exhausting & exist to both justify inequalities whilst positioning the working-class as stupid, uncultured & undeserving.

So let’s take this example of ‘the seaside is free’ as an option for a family day out for a single mother of 3 kids from London.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Rishi Sunak is choosing to plunge millions into financial despair rather than stand up to private corporations holding our country to ransom.

There is an alternative to greedflation — tax the rich, redistribute wealth, and bring energy, water, rail & mail into public ownership.

[Lewis Fogarty @lewis_fogarty]

A Deputy Head of a Primary school said to me today:

The #earlyyears is the most important stage of #primaryeducation. If you get it wrong, you spend the next 6 years trying to put it right. If you get it right, you can spend the next 6 years building on it.

Couldn't agree more

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Happy birthday to the brilliant @MichaelRosenYes, whose wonderful poetry has provided joy to so many.

Here’s his beautiful ode to the NHS — These Are The Hands. Thanks for all you do Michael!

[The Left Wing Society @LeftWingSociety]

Abolish the Monarchy 👑

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

We live in a grotesquely unequal society that concentrates wealth, status & power in the hands of a few.

Real patriotism is about building a society that cares for each other and cares for all.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Inflation is not caused by workers’ wages.

It’s caused by corporate greed and profiteering.

This government needs to get a grip. Tax the rich, introduce price controls on staple foods, and bring our utilities back into public ownership.

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

8 Reasons for abolishing OFSTED or at the very least stripping it of it’s powers….

1.Unfair judgements - as inspections last for 2 days and are done by a small group of humans (sometimes 1), the chance for unreliable judgements is high

2.OFSTED doesn’t help schools to improve - following an inspection, OFSTED doesn’t help a school or it’s staff. For example ‘this school has bad behaviour in it’ - they walk away post inspection not to be seen until the next inspection. There is no school improvement arm to OFSTED.

3.Impact or a poor grade - this links to 1 and 2, but the community impact can be as follows: a) parents don’t want to send their kids to the school (each child is worth money to the school) b) some teachers don’t want to join the school as scared off by rating c) and prob the biggest - the psychological imprint of a poor grade is something I can’t imagine having to deal with as a school leader. But what I know is - it can be devastating for an individual and their family.

https://t.co/FcRjWQf93F and budgets - HMI pay is 72,000 a year, day inspection pay is £330. OFSTED budget is £150 million a year. Bonuses are awarded to OFSTED senior leaders usually between 5000 and 20000. OFSTED haven’t disclosed what these bonuses are for. In a school funding crisis, where teachers and TAs are having to battle for relatively small increases, surely this is wrong.

5.Impact of OFSTED pressure - it won’t take you long to find examples of leaders needing healthcare as a result of the pressure of upcoming inspection. Grades can be career defining but, as previously mentioned, are not reliable. The lottery of ‘who you get through the door’ and ‘what their lines of enquiry might be’ causes uncertainty, doubt and stress.

6.‘Doing it for OFSTED’ - OFSTED say no one should do anything for them which is easy for them to say when their own careers don’t rest on OFSTEDs judgements. Schools feel they need to ‘do’ all the time - new policies, new protocols, to ‘keep up’ with other schools and OFSTED themselves. The competition culture OFSTED inspires is damaging.

7.There are alternatives - the grading system doesn’t have to exist, neither does the OFSTED inspection system. Other countries do things very differently - take Italy, Ireland, Finland and Germany as just a few examples very close to home. It can’t possibly be argued that the English education system is better off than any of these by employing the system it does.

8.There is no evidence everything would fall apart without OFSTED - what’s the harm in giving it a try for a year or two? What’s the harm in a 5 year experiment - no OFSTED gradings whatsoever for 5 years and then survey schools, parents and children to find out about what’s changed for them positive or negative?

[Deb Ventre @debbie_ventre]

@daymiller @NoContextBrits 🤣 I’m singing this now, thanks for that 🙈🤣

[Denise Welch @RealDeniseWelch]

God I f……g hate this government. Shame on them all. Using our hard earned money to pay to cover up their disasters whilst allowing our NHS to deteriorate to this extent. Thank you Peter for this upsetting but detailed explanation.

[NHS Nurses @SocialistNHS]

As a nurse...
I'm striking for fair pay.
I'm striking to protect my patients.
I'm striking to save the NHS.

I'm striking as a last resort. Please give us a follow if you support striking NHS workers #SocialistSunday 💙

[Ahmed Ali @DrAhmednurAli]

You can never ban abortion, you can only ban safe abortions. Read that again.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

“You’ve got a friend in me.”

[Sue💚 @SueTaylor_]

Thank you @RickyGervais - saying what needs to be said #Politics

[Secret Headteacher @secretHT1]

Autumn 1: I will drain you of all you have.

Autumn 2: Hold my beer.

[YourNHSNeedsYou @YourNHS2021]

Stephen Fry: Our research shows that American corporations are embedding themselves in our NHS, and that is a really dangerous turn of events

#yournhsneedsyou
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[Ralf Little 💙 @RalfLittle]

Had a few clashes on here today with some people angry at climate protests, but, as is so often the case, @mrjamesob puts it better than I ever could. Please watch properly before you @ me. 👇🏻

[Deb Ventre @debbie_ventre]

What an amazing first half (is it called a first half? 🤷🏼‍♀️) @DrHookOfficial @liverpoolphil we have our fingers crossed for 🎶pity the fool🎶 before the night is over 🤞🏼 you sound incredible Dennis 👏🏻

[Deb Ventre @debbie_ventre]

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[Reese Witherspoon @ReeseW]

Can’t say thank you enough to all the incredible teachers who dedicate their time and resources to educating, celebrating, and encouraging kids heading back to school this year. Every day next week I’ll be fulfilling a teacher’s wish list… please send me your lists! 📝

[Deb Ventre @debbie_ventre]

@honeymcel @Mariacoops