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Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶"In truth, academisation should never have happened. It serves solely an ideological purpose: the removal of democratic accountability and the transfer of state funds into private hands."Morning Star Online: An end to the academy school gravy train? <a href="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/end-academy-school-gravy-train" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/end-academy-school-gravy-train</a><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/UKSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKSchools</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schools</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Academies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Birbalsingh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Birbalsingh</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/edutooters" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@edutooters</a>

Tenebris NoxAt the same time one of my son’s schools is asking for donations of books and Pritt Sticks because they are hard up, the Harris Federation boss Sir Dan Moynihan’s has a salary that exceeds £500K (the CEO of my son’s MAT earns £300k).Absolute scandal.<a href="https://schoolsweek.co.uk/moynihan-becomes-first-500k-academy-ceo/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://schoolsweek.co.uk/moynihan-becomes-first-500k-academy-ceo/</a><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schools</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/ukschools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukschools</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uk</a>

Will Berard<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/edutooters" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@edutooters</a> And in much of the English-Speaking world, the neoliberal, decentralised model means the purchase decisions are done at the school, worse the department, or at most the district/trust, level.Those are entities with much less bargaining power than, say, States.And they're staffed by overworked people seeking clearly costable "solutions", prone to fall for silver-bullet marketing hype.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EdTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EdTech</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schools</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PublicSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicSchools</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StateSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StateSchools</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKSchools</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Teachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Teachers</a>

Girl about villageGood - presenteeism culture in schools needs to die <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UKSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKSchools</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Academies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academies</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/oct/12/uk-academies-very-sorry-for-policies-saying-pupils-must-attend-when-unwell" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/oct/12/uk-academies-very-sorry-for-policies-saying-pupils-must-attend-when-unwell</a>

WigTea Official🇬🇧 2024 GCSE grades are in! 📊 📚 Resilience shines through, but growing educational inequality can't be ignored. <a href="https://wigtea.com/gcse-grades-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://wigtea.com/gcse-grades-2024/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GCSEGrades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GCSEGrades</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKSchools</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EducationInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EducationInequality</a>

Girl about villageOh good, another story about academies' heavy-handed rules with the inevitable boomers in the comments going "the kids are all soft - in our day, the teachers caned us for breathing the wrong way - never did *us* any harm" 🙄 <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Academies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academies</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UKSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKSchools</a> <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2024/05/15/parents-compare-berkshire-school-prison-new-miltary-style-rules-20843317/?ico=trending-module_category_uk_item-2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://metro.co.uk/2024/05/15/parents-compare-berkshire-school-prison-new-miltary-style-rules-20843317/?ico=trending-module_category_uk_item-2</a>

AutisticMumTo3UK schools set to teach controversial 'gender ideology' to kids in new rules shake-up - Opera News Official <a href="http://opr.news/37cd1671240408en_gb?link=1&client=mini" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://opr.news/37cd1671240408en_gb?link=1&client=mini</a><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transphobia</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/UKSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKSchools</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schools</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/TransKids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransKids</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/SocialTransitioning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialTransitioning</a>

Girl about villageI can believe this - a few years ago, a photographer at an infant school I know decided to Photoshop the photos he'd taken to "improve" the kids' appearance. Needless to say, the parents were unimpressed 😡 <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/school-photo-controversy-children-additional-needs-b2521504.html?utm_source=press.coop" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/school-photo-controversy-children-additional-needs-b2521504.html?utm_source=press.coop</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UKSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKSchools</a>

HelenI've made it through another term at the coalface, and I'm so, so tired. I have a heap of marking that I should have done but haven't, as always. I just think, fundamentally, in teaching - we need more prep time and less contact time. 10% is not enough. I feel that statement needs those obnoxious clapping hands, but I'll resist. What is it in other countries...? <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Teaching</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Teachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Teachers</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKSchools</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SecondarySchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SecondarySchools</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/edutooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#edutooter</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/edutooters" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@edutooters</a>

King MobUK government boasting about how they’ve improved schools.Fact: primary class sizes are now the highest in Europe, secondary class sizes are the highest since records began almost 50 years ago.That’s definitely an improvement, isn’t it?<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukeducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukeducation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/teachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#teachers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukteachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukteachers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schools</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukschools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukschools</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uk</a>

Emily KingCould it be perhaps that growing inequality caused by ongoing austerity, Brexit and the pandemic could in fact be some of the leading root causes for ongoing attendance issues in English schools?"In one case, a mentor found a girl was not attending school because she had to share her only pair of shoes with her mother – meaning she could not go to school if her mother needed to wear shoes that day."<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/05/government-fund-school-attendance-mentors-worst-hit-areas-england" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/05/government-fund-school-attendance-mentors-worst-hit-areas-england</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKSchools</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKEducation</a>

Emily KingI do genuinely worry about what things will be like when my little one starts school. The systems of oppression that have sprung up with the rise of academies are not, in the long run, going to lead to heathy, well-rounded people."What’s behind the rise in school absence rates?" <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/10/why-do-some-children-refuse-to-go-to-school" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/10/why-do-some-children-refuse-to-go-to-school</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKschools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKschools</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKeducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKeducation</a>

King MobListening to Bridget Phillipson, Labour's shadow education secretary on LBC radio right now describing how private schools offer a breadth of curriculum and arts. DEFENDING private schools and the ability of the children of the wealthy to have a more superior schooling.Phillipson also REFUSES to commit Labour to a rebuilding plan for all schools involved in the concrete RAAC scandal.You can't tell the difference between Phillipson and Gillian Keegan. (I suspect they are the same person.)Another reason to reject these fake Tories and reject the fake "choice" we have between what are effectively two wings of the same neoliberal state party.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schools</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukschools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukschools</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LabourParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourParty</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/raac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#raac</a>

Steve :verified:Marina Purkiss Asks If The Private Schools Of Tory MP's Kids Are Affected?<a href="https://youtu.be/TLKHL9hWj1E" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/TLKHL9hWj1E</a><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GTTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GTTO</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MarinaPurkiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarinaPurkiss</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/RAAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RAAC</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/UKSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKSchools</a>

King MobMy partner - who is a teacher - went back to work after the summer holiday.Their management team told them at a staff meeting that they were providing free school meals for TEACHERS suffering hardship. And a hardship fund for TEACHERS who don't earn enough money to survive.My partner thought it was a decent thing to do. It just made me angry.There is something beyond wrong when professional workers like teachers are unable to survive on their salaries. The answer isn't papering over the cracks and pretending this is a normal state of affairs. It's happening to so many workers, not just teachers.Something's got to give. It will.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uk</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukschools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukschools</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/teachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#teachers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schools</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hardship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hardship</a>

Dani DanisWTF 🤬Don’t talk to pupils about misogynist Andrew Tate, government urges teachers in England<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKschools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKschools</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/apr/29/talk-pupils-misogynist-andrew-tate-teachers-schools-england?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/apr/29/talk-pupils-misogynist-andrew-tate-teachers-schools-england?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

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