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Guys, some verbal ticks can rear-lee annoy students
While it can be tempting for teachers to try to get ‘down with the kids’, children are brutally good at recognising try-hards
9 June 2017
‘The London media have always been keen on portraying remote coastal communities as stupid, feckless and feral’
One head of humanities imagines the response of a headteacher setting out his hopes of presenting the “brighter face of Broadchurch” after a difficult few weeks for the remote coastal town
18 April 2017
‘Education spending might be at “record levels” - but that’s probably because of the huge salaries of MAT bosses’
If spending on education has never been so high then we must ask why schools across the country are suffering cuts, writes one head of humanities
11 April 2017
Meeting former students in odd but unsurprising places....
One head of humanities finds that the most surprising re-encounters with students – paradoxically – usually have a certain air of predictability about them
8 April 2017
‘Why teachers need an alternative strategy for fighting the funding cuts ravaging education’
Let’s shame the government by giving a pound to charity every time a minister lies about funding, suggests one teacher
20 March 2017
‘Romanticising all pupils as being delightful feels like “La-La Land” - it’s our teacher and TA colleagues who are really remarkable’
When teachers leave a school they often say that it is the children they will miss the most – but do the children actually deserve such an accolade, asks one head of humanities
27 February 2017
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