Carmel O’Hagan

"Gibb’s apparent Pavlovian response to hearing his favourite words and authors led him to swiftly appoint (often highly inexperienced) people to key positions of influence over the education of England’s millions of children"

This is a superb thread that captures and explains the frustrations many of us feel, but did not/could not articulate as well as this. 👏 Bravo.

The 'Great Noticing' Era Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
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Make the links. Streeting. Hood. MacAlister. It's pure, unadulterated cronyism. The thing that Labour pledged to eradicate. £millions wasted. No accountability. No expertise. Gongs. Safe seats. Ministerial posts. It is immoral. It stinks.

It isn’t used by many - luckily- I think NEU research says 3% of schools ? - which begs the Q “why?” (It’s poor) but those who do IME are having it thrust upon them by SLT who think the way to achieve consistency is to get everyone using the same thing.

Exactly have we deskilled teacher so much schools need to buy this? It’s like all the phonic schemes etc when L&S was free and accessible!

@warwickmansell.bsky.social
I wondered if you’d like to take a look at this? And maybe @oaknational.bsky.social might explain this ?

The problem now is that so much public I money has been pumped into it the DfE can’t ditch it.

And for the record I was never ‘on’ it.
Extremely poor resources& no willingness to listen to any advice on what needs changing (despite spending much of my unpaid time meeting people to talk about this)

I am just completely over Oak. Such a gravy train for some DFE/Gibb favourites that turned into a shocking waste of tax payers money.

>> how about this, free, advice.
Don’t use them.

I presume they meant UK office hours. But whatever, this seems a very poor attitude to dealing with others’ money, not grasping that the person on the other end is spending time worrying they’ve been scammed etc, etc. Anyway. Not worth any further attention. I won’t be using their services again!

Do you get the feeling that Dayana may be a trifle annoyed? She's clearly trying hard not to show it. I would suggest that any of the many people who see this message avoid her services. Wouldn't want to upset her. Poor dear. Obviously razzled.

Seeing how they are calling for crimes against humanity, maybe it’s time to proscribe Farage and the Reform Party

Reform is racist.
Let’s just say it.
Loudly and often.
They’re racist.
Don’t take them on on how they plan to fund their nonsense.
They don’t care.
They don’t say it because they’ve worked it out.
They say it for headlines and for voters who want prejudice as policy.
They’re racist.
They’re failure.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
- Theodore Roosevelt

What would educationalist Ted Wragg say about zero tolerance measures in schools? Ted Wragg was an advocate of humour and humanity in the classroom, not of draconian and authoritative measures that break children’s spirits

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Well said Jenny. This is quite chilling. I thought that teachers were supposed to keep their political views to themselves? She clearly has no idea of the depth of hatre, towards so many, that this man spewed. Or maybe she does? What professional code of conduct does she adhere to?

She jumps on any bandwagon - a lack of critical thinking. Has she thought that he wouldn't send his child to her school simply because he would want a white man as a headmaster?

He certainly was among the worst of us.

I'd say I'm shocked by her saying this but given her past record, I'm not.

He advocated stoning gays

If I had a child in her school, I would be on the phone to her this morning. However, there is no way I would send a child to her school.

I cannot understand how this woman is an allowed near children. She should be investigated.

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social Surely Gordon Mcsweeney has to go doesn't he? He must have been the one to recommend Mandelson + he must have also overseen him being appointed? He is now a liability for Keir Starmer. If a reset of Govt is needed Mcsweeney needs to go. He is Labour's Dominic Cummings

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Irony is clearly not dead. The ideology that he and Gove visited on the system has been very damaging.

The numbers harmed are considerable.

OMG ! The irony 🤦🏼‍♀️…save us from the ideologues. When I consider the damage wreaked by the brothers Grimm 🤬

A legacy of significant attendance issues for those left behind in the race to the top, off rolling of the inconvenient pupils and massive neglect of children with SEND. All have paid a high price for Gibb and Gove's smug assumptions of progress. The lost children of Tory ideology

A picture not dissimilar to that of Hiroshima, 80 years ago to the day.
Such is the scale of devastation and misery.