Mastodawn

#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

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Juggling With Eggs May 11

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.

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Pam C

@JugglingWithEggs One of the worst things that was brought in was the national curriculum that only applies to state schools. Our school in the 70s had maths, English, and any two earth sciences, and the rest could be chosen by students. Now you have do do the subjects the government chooses whether you have an aptitude for it or not. And English and maths need modularising so being good at some parts on not others doesn't make you a failure (ie Dyscalculaics and Dyslexics).