PrairieGirl

Londoner living in Lincs 🐧🏳️‍🌈 Former teacher 👩🏼‍🏫 Ace unicorn 🦄 ♠️ bookworm 📚 lover of stars ⭐️ ⭐ ⭐️ & shiny things 🌈 Remain 🇪🇺 Rejoin

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child & even worse - these changes were introduced by the government without consultation, warning and no evidence base

@ASGSF_Protest @JoshMacAlister

[BBC Woman's Hour @BBCWomansHour]

‘I found it very cathartic writing it’

Spoken word poet @_caitlinoryan performed an excerpt of her poem, At What Point, live on Woman’s Hour on Tuesday.

She then spoke to @bbcnuala about the experiences that led her to write it and how she felt when the poem went viral 🎤

[Dr Rachel Claire Morris, Shadow Secretary of Snark @5By5Creativity]

'Every boy should learn not to be an abusive incel at school'

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

Tonight I learned something I’ve always suspected. Most people will support a rapist over a woman.

[Natalie Page @NataliePage]

Do you know what happens after a rapist or paedophile is found guilty in the family court?

Nothing.

They go home. They go to work. They go about their lives freely. Because it's in family court, it's secret, and it won't show up on DBS checks.

https://t.co/pu0aVE0835

[Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman]

@BardyMum @SwailesRuth There seems to be quite a lot coming out of Ofsted at the moment on EY - writing, language learning and play - that EY specialists are deeply worried about, because it seems to show such lack of understanding of how young children learn & language development.

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

Just what is so dangerous about the idea that young children learn best through play?

[Antonia @flaminhaystacks]

Every time a woman is murdered, the first people suspected of that murder is the men in her life and that usually is the case

Yet when women report being in danger from men in their lives, they are ignored and called liars

[marie skou @marie_skou]

Women must have the right to be safe from violent men.

Women must have the right to control our own bodies.

Women must have the right to decide our own future.

Women must have the right to speak without fear.

Stop telling women and girls they don't deserve rights.

[soup 🤍 @alorazei]

some people are natural criers. they cry when excited, they cry in grief, they cry in laughter, they cry in rage, they literally cry at any slight emotional experience or state. this is how their bodies process experiences in real time. and that’s okay

[Anna Fazackerley @AnnaFazack1]

Think about all you’ve heard on Ofsted listening. On wellbeing. At Eldon primary, who bravely speak out here, a teacher fell to floor crying during recent inspection. Two left suicidal. As Paul Whiteman says “nothing less than a total reset is enough.” https://t.co/IF0M4bNngt

[Ruth Swailes @SwailesRuth]

A plea. If you’re going to write a curriculum plan for 2,3,4,5,6 or 7 year olds, please spend time (not hours but years or better still, decades) actually working with them. Tired of seeing “lesson plans” for young children written by people who’ve never taught them. It shows!

[Vittoria @vitt2tsnoc]

Almost one hundred men raped an unconscious woman. Thousands of men saw the advert inviting them to. Over a decade, not ONE man went to the police.
Even the men who knew what was happening and left, said nothing. All in one town. And then men wonder why women choose the bear.

[Dr. Aaron Bradbury @AaronTeamEC]

We pay more per hour for our dogs to be looked after than we do for our children to be cared for, nurtured and educated.

Hourly rate below

Dog walker/carer £15 per hour

Nursery Professional 8.50-11.80 per hour

Parents should be outraged, we all should be outraged at this.

[Kate Barker-Mawjee @KateBMwriting]

If you’re on the fence about women, some elderly or disabled, being able to request female only carers, consider that 90 men thought it would be fine to rape an unconscious woman in her sixties. Only 3 men declined to rape her and none of them reported the rapes to the police.