Mr D Brian
@dbrian2.bsky.social
UK primary teacher. Interested in fairness/outcomes for all children.
As an idea, I like the sound of the govt investing in supported internships for young people with SEND. But given the desperate reality of the EHCP process & the fact it causes such chronic stress, I can't say I'm confident that internships would ever get beyond a shiny, attention-grabbing idea.
"There is one type of rare, gargantuan, towering lie that makes all the other mass lies throughout human history seem like frightened, scurrying, little adorable fibs. This massive lie can best be summed up as 'when it comes to climate change... we have more time.'" - @ghostpanther.bsky.social
The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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I don’t know what to tell you, man. everyone still over there is essentially melting their brains on contrarianism 24/7. “are scuba divers faking the need for bottled air?” these are addicts
Sam@samd.bsky.social · last wk.I’m starting to realize that all of the annoying pundits just suffer from oppositional defiant disorder increasing your kids’ risk of melanoma to own the libs
40 years ago today, residents of Oxford awoke to find a 7.6m shark apparently crashing through the roof of broadcaster Bill Heine’s home. Weighing 200kg & taking three months to build, #theHeadingtonshark was installed on the 41st anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing.
Very good analysis of the NEET problem. substack.com/@willd10/not...
William Davies (@willd10)
I have a piece in the new London Review of Books on Britain’s Neets crisis, a topic that has received a lot of political attention in recent weeks, with Andy Burnham’s announcements about technical an...
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This chapter by Ian Hacking has stood the test of time. Worth revisiting at a time when we doubt the reality of long COVID, fight culture wars over gender identity, and get exercised over the question if neurodivergence is becoming more common.
*every* DSM dx is a construct. that doesn't make them not real, it just means the map is not the territory. it's not *unrelated* to the territory, and it's still very useful to getting places.
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 3w agoChannel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
New paper: The neurodiversity movement vs. the medical of autism: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Forced into 9 citations; brief on overlaps & distinctions. As background, newly 'published' relevant pre-dissertation chapter (2016) that has inspired 4-5 papers, w/ over 50 pages of references:
(PDF) Strengths of speech delay pre-dissertation chapter
PDF | This is an unsubmitted “pre-dissertation” chapter from my PhD I decided instead to adapt for my (much broader) dissertation, and update and adapt... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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They'll mail guns, but want to prohibit mail-in ballots And jr & Blanche are corrupt. He must not be confirmed! #BlockBlanche #DyingforGunSafety #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy #DV1
Supporting children with #emotionallybasedschoolavoidance (#EBSA) means embracing complexity, not rushing solutions. Learn more from our ‘Reflections from the Room’ blog, published following our recent EBSA in practice event. https://bit.ly/4phL3cO
EBSA in young people: complexity, pressure, and the value of slowing down
Emotionally based school avoidance rarely has a single cause, and the pace of a response can matter as much as its content.
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Keith Douglas wrote this gorgeous poem 86 summers ago (in the midst of the Second World War). It still resonates hugely today...
Children have died because they did not receive the help they were entitled to. It's unacceptable. Well said @chriscoghlanmp.bsky.social 👏👏👏
Farage’s world is cracking, and he’s snapping.
As a former headteacher, I spent decades staying politically neutral. Not anymore. Nigel Farage has outlined Reform UK’s education agenda—from scrapping the Equality Act to mandating culture wars. It should deeply worry us all. My breakdown: open.substack.com/pub/exheadte... #EduSky #QuietLeadership
What Do Schools Look Like Under Reform? (And Why It Should Worry You)
A former headteacher dismantles Nigel Farage’s plan to scrap the Equality Act and bring culture wars into the classroom.
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Seems an apt time to put this out again - nothing has really changed in the research consensus since I wrote this. Also, if the 'harmful' bits are banned, does that make phones 'safe' for schools...? www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Is Jonathan Haidt right about smartphones?
In ‘The Anxious Generation’, Haidt makes the case that social media and smartphones have ‘rewired’ today’s teenagers, but his critics say the evidence tells us something very different - and that bann...
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If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
So glad that Luqman Saeed - an academic at Ulster University - has written this piece about the Belfast riots. I hope I could write this clearly and perceptively were I under similar pressure right now. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Daniel Trilling@trillingual.bsky.social · 2mo agoFrom a friend in Belfast.
This Korean paper asmr artist that I’ve been following for a while made a TikTok of her healing Van Gogh 🥹 Her account name is paper pepper www.tiktok.com/@paper__pepp...
In 2018, my LA closed its special school for autistic children without a LD in favour of units attached to mainstream. The result was many children stranded at home, suffering poor mental health with no support. 5 years later they opened a new school to replace the one they closed. Such a mess.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoLabour doesn't seem to like Send schools for kids like mine – but here's what we'll lose if these precious places are forgotten | John Harris
This is great. I recently completed an assessment for my daughter and found myself wondering why I was filljng in a form that locates deficits in her and not the system she has been in.
Jon Severs@jonsevers.bsky.social · 3mo ago"A child isn’t born with SEND. They aren’t born knowing that they don’t fit," says the writer. "This is something they learn; something that they’re taught." This piece is one of the most beautiful mediations on SEND I have read. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.
Very good description of psychiatric diagnoses from @awaisaftab.bsky.social 👏👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
This is what normalisation looks like.
Stephen Farrow@stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 3mo agoBloody hell.
