#Starmer has to go. This last ditch scrambling attempt to make it look like he’s providing the change that people actually voted for in 2024 is just not going to happen under a man with such limited vision.
- the UK crashed out of Europe in 2016. A stagnant decade has passed and he’s still just proposing tinkering around edges of our relationship with EU.
- nationalise our vital assets - water, public transport and energy…not the ailing steel industry.
- condemn Netanyahu and Trump by name
As a parent of two kids sitting their SATs today under the most difficult of conditions having lost their beloved grandpa on Saturday, but also having spent a year of being force fed a diet of almost exclusively grammar and maths, I don’t feel much optimism for Britain’s kids.
The education system for teachers and kids crashed and burned under the #Tories #Gove. #Labour has changed nothing.
Schools and universities are failing everyone. A technocratic expensive failure is what I see.
When I was doing one-to-one reading support for children at primary level, I witnessed the teachers taking groups out of other lessons to force feed them Gove's favourite topics, eg frontial adverbials. Over and over.
Why hasn't the government revisited his personal ideology-led curriculum?
I don’t recall ever hearing about fronted adverbials until I read a brilliant piece in the Guardian by Michael Rosen about them during lockdown. I was finding Reception homeschool hard at time as I was trying to re-teach one kid who had already taught themselves to read, phonics, while the other was lost - needed glasses.
@JugglingWithEggs @tiggy I read that with a lot of satisfaction when it was shared on Twitter back then, and loved quotes such as this one;
“Anyone struggling with homeschooling should know that, despite having a PhD in literature and having published 12 books, I only learned what a fronted adverbial was when my eight-year-old’s teacher said he doesn’t use enough of them in his written work.”
@HollieK72 @JugglingWithEggs @tiggy
Jaysus!
Former high school English & English Language Teacher here.
Had to look them up… familiar with the thing, but that term?
@HollieK72 @JugglingWithEggs @tiggy
My oldest taught in English schools for 2 years. I think they’re still recovering from the trauma of Ofsted.
@JugglingWithEggs Yup, education is falling apart.
Curriculum that is way too outdated, SATS which add stress for no practical advantage, OFSTED which exists merely to frighten school staff.
But most of all a complete failure to invest, in buildings, resources and staff. Standards fall, and behaviour gets out of control, if schools simply can't afford to have enough adults around.
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Ian Turton
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Looking for explanations…
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