I'm a part-time EdD student at Bishop Grosseteste Uni researching EAL, having taught EAL for many years :) I'm a grammar nerd, fantasy reader and big walker.
It’s a dreadful realisation that the only people in a position to do something to help people with the cost of living crisis won’t do something to help people with the cost of living crisis.
while Jacob Rees-Mogg spends his day leaving notes on civil servants desks telling them to come to work could a civil servant leave a note on his desk telling him to fuck off 👍
BREAKING: The same MPs who sadly had "no choice" but to raise your National Insurance have just voted to give bankers a massive tax cut. You really couldn't make it up x
We can't decolonise Speech & Language Therapy without addressing the Linguistic Discrimination faced by students, professionals & the people we serve
Those who thought voting in Johnson to be PM would be kicking the establishment- what you know see happening with Cressida Dick's intervention, the government saying they're playing by the rules - that's the establishment right there. You've been had!!
More language-based prejudice and shaming from Ofsted. This is from a 2016 report of a school in Sunderland: "the very strong dialect of some teachers and teaching assistants hinders pupils’ development of formal spoken English". Thousands of other examples in our data, too...