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@schoolmyths.bsky.social

Been a teacher for 25 years. I am using this account to expose myths that permeate the English state school system and teaching as a career.

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I have two questions...

1. How many times have you had influenza?

2. Why don't you know?

06.10.2023 23:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nonsense. Health and safety law would have prevented this... because teachers aren't there to be sacrificed so mummy and daddy could go back to work.

Plus, children are dirty disease spreaders.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

06.10.2023 23:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

'Raac: Keegan says some pupils prefer temporary classrooms'

Yes, it was like learning in a fun house, wonky floors, dripping ceilings, and, spiders.

19.09.2023 19:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's obvious to anyone in education that children do not know what gender is.

Gay girls, tomboys and girls that just don't like dolls are being made to feel that they are trans.

They aren't. They are just not conforming to gender stereotypes forced on them by marketing and small mindedness.

13.09.2023 08:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the education sector in the UK, there is a black hole in talent at the top.

Inexperienced hardliners are praised whilst they destroy their more experienced and skillful subordinates.

Becoming a headteacher is seen as a cash cow by many.

This is why so many teachers are leaving.

12.09.2023 22:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Teach by pre-made PowerPoint is so common because leaders and teachers alike are afraid of individualism.

Lessons are boring and unadaptable and it makes qualified teachers replaceable by non-specialists.

10.09.2023 15:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

School budgets have declined in real terms year on year since 2010.

What schools are expected to be and do has increased year on year during this same time frame.

The extra workload has been shouldered by school staff who suffered real terms pay cuts for 13 years.

06.09.2023 15:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Concrete Crisis is only the most visible neglect of schools and education that the Conservative government has overseen. Perhaps the biggest is the neglect of skills for the future.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/educati...

06.09.2023 06:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

'Anxiety' is a serious problem that can incapacitate people.

It is not the reason that 1 in 5 children do not attend school regularly.

They don't attend because they are afraid of being told 'no'. School is often the only place they know with rules.

Teachers who say 'no' are seen as uncaring.

03.09.2023 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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