Laura McInerney

Couldn’t AI marking release time that could be spent with children?

Also, I’m pretty sure the school didn’t allow any flags. That was in the instruction for the day.

Teacher Tappers write in all the time with questions they would like in the app, and our MOST requested question topic is parents!

You're the experts.
What would you like to see us delve into? 🤔

You think Rayner’s never had to fight for anything?

Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, also becomes the first Green Party candidate to win a Westminster by-election.

Setting party politics aside, Hannah Spencer was just an outstanding candidate.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

The thing Polanski gets, above anything else, is narrative. In many ways he’s an Alistair Campbell more than a Blair.

An under-estimated aspect of elections is matching the right candidate to the fight. It’s one reason why, for many years, I wouldn’t have said Rayner was right for PM. Against Farage types? An actual working class northern person is a good shout.
(No not you, Andy. Shhh).

They’ll put him in a safe seat next time, alas.

Do we start to get Green defections now? 🤔

If people who dislike paying their fair share of tax or believe Britain is a dystopic hellscape move to Dubai, and Americans who don't take either view move here, that seems...quite good?

Cameron Diaz!

They’re so gorgeous!

Ah here’s a link to the IFS podcast where he defends it in depth

bsky.app/profile/nick...

@nickhillmanuk.bsky.social has been all over radio shows defending it. Worth listening to if you can find one

This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters.
If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.

Schools white paper: The key schools and academies policies Fair banding transparency, a crackdown on off-rolling and calls for all schools to be in trusts

📝 A crackdown on off-rolling pupils, a call for standalone schools to join or form MATs and changes to the admissions code are among major plans unveiled in today's schools white paper

Read more for all the key proposals 🔽
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-white-paper-the-key-schools-policies/

There are easy read documents available, both of the white paper and the consultation

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/699c91...

consult.education.gov.uk/send-strateg...

And shorter skim read documents

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Every child achieving and thriving and SEND consultation supporting information A series of documents setting out the key information and proposed reforms in the schools white paper and SEND consultation document for parents and those working in the sector.

There are easy read documents available, both of the white paper and the consultation

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/699c91...

consult.education.gov.uk/send-strateg...

And shorter skim read documents

www.gov.uk/government/p...

The Labour Party have done a lot of mad things in this Parliament.
But I could kiss them every time I come into Euston and the screens don’t make me feel ill.

My hunch is they think this is a good one to put in because it’s a direction of travel anyway and it’s relatively easy not to purposely cause more meat eating.

I think even that’s pushing it.

“Won’t do anything that directly hampers this aim” is really the line.

In reality:
Legally binding commitment = try

Actually, undermine is the wrong word. Confuse maybe. Ultimately nothing in that first message is incompatible with some people not having support when young.
As it was education you can also
imagine teachers get a lot of mentions too!

Yes, and I nearly mentioned that in the message above. But (a) it would slightly undermine the point, and (b) most often it was because they were dead. I almost never had anyone who didn’t mention other people’s support. If they didn’t have it from above they usually had a v supportive partner now.

That’s so sweet
Everyone just needs one cheerleader in their early life

A notable thing when doing Schools Week profiles was how often successful people would ask for an extra copy of the paper to give to a parent/grandparent/long-term adult supporter.
The power of a person believing in you throughout your life is not to be under-estimated.

Those lessons are always such write offs. Which, when you teach a group once a week, is so annoying!

I only know because The Indelicates did a song, Hotwheels, about him on their brilliant album Avenue QAnon. @simonindelicate.indelicates.xyz told his full story at one of their (infrequent but wonderful) gigs. Their songs are such a great window onto social events.

State primary schools are also legally obliged to provide swimming lessons up to 25m and there’s no right of withdrawal. But schools are increasingly struggling with this one due to costs. (Also effectiveness: quite difficult to achieve with large classes of varied ability).

Schools are actually really good at vaccines. It’s one of the small things that actually works in the system. So well, in fact, that almost no one notices it.