Tim Marston

@tmarstonht.bsky.social

Headteacher with a new challenge.

Turned out that the rise in knife crime was not caused by immigration or multiculturalism but by cutting a handful of important preventative programmes, so let's just stop talking about...

This resonates with me. My wife and I adopted our two when they were 5 and 8. We were both teachers, we prioritised education but singularly failed to make school a point of success. One lad picked up all sorts of softer skills and has three or four casual jobs that he balances and bounces between.

Ben Newmark@bennewmark.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fwiw I think the right approach won't be found in formal assessment itself but outside it. We need more second chances, other routes to decent jobs and lives that aren't academic. Which I get is what AB like many others have tried is trying, but won't work because as @stephenkb.bsky.social says..

I am bizarrely committed to always travelling home with my holiday laundry done. 3 missing ATMs, one closed Lavandara later - I am sitting whilst the wash cycle runs. Small victories.

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Av has done 6 weeks of duo lingo before our trip to Porto. She just confidently ordered an iced americano for her and a bottle of water for me. What came out was two hot black americanos and a jug of hot milk.

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Schools are different. Buildings, community, transport. While schools can never please everyone chances are your kid's has made the best decisions about opening and heat adaptations based on its individual circumstance. Assume competence. Leaders and teachers are at least as hot and grumpy as you.