So, to be clear, we just sent 3 million children into primary school FOR ONE DAY, so they could all mix around the virus, and *then* go into lockdown? That's what's actually just happened, right? My brain isn't making this up?
Laura McInerney
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Laura McInerney
@miss_mcinerney
Co-Founder of @TeacherTapp, daily poll of 12k teachers. Ex: @SchoolsWeek editor, @Guardian writer & teacher. SAY: Laura 'Mack & Ernie' (like there's 3 of us!)
- Charity shops have gone weirdly expensive. £2.50 for an *empty* Bonne Mamman jar?!? (British Heart Foundation shop in Newham)
- On Christmas Day, 1999, in thick fog and horrendous weather conditions, RNLI volunteers left their families to go hunt for my cousin. They didn’t stop until he washed up on Boxing Day. Frankly they could spend my donations on gold bars for all I care. They are my heroes.
- Just imagine if everyone had been able to spend the holidays preparing really good remote learning for this month. ☹️
- Listened to teacher on Radio4 PM stuck with entire Year 5 in Spain after Heathrow disruption. Her verve and calmness, the way she was making it an adventure for the kids (who will now journey for 24 hours by coach and ferry) was a classic example of why teachers are ace.
- Can’t shake the fact that, we have: - A PM under investigation by the police for attending parties we know he was at - A Chancellor who is permanently elsewhere - A Home Secretary who is a bully - A Deputy PM who went on holiday when Kabul fell, & - SIR Gavin Williamson
- This is devastating and unnecessary. Why should you be kept out of a music, or art, or dance, or drama degree for getting a grade 3 in maths? Why should you be stopped from gaining a maths degree for getting a 3 in English? And why let rich kids avoid these rule?!
- To anyone who has a kid with exams swiped from under them, please PLEASE remind that learning lasts forever. All their work, all their skills and knowledge, that’s theirs, to keep. Exams are a day and a grade. Don’t let them lose that the LEARNING was what mattered.
- One last time for the people at the back (and @Telegraph). 1,265 is not the total number of hours teachers work per year. It’s the total number of hours they can be told *where* to work. If teachers only did those hours, the school system would collapse.
- Here's what's the most sickening thing about this whole schools u-turn. Not a single thing has changed since the PM sat on telly yesterday and said it was fine to open schools. Not one thing. Same facts. Same data. Same virus. It's just wilful stupidity.
- My absolute favourite part of the new Network North document - which is almost insulting in the way it tries to convince northerners they haven’t been shafted by HS2 cancellation - is the part where they promise… To fix potholes in the South of England.
- Every time they pull this ‘we were working together anyway’ crap I think of all the schools that closed their staffrooms, meaning teachers couldn’t even get a bloody cup of tea, and they had spent the day WORKING WITH LOADS OF PUPILS.
- I understand that Williamson wants to ensure parents get a good service from schools, but pulling Ofsted as a threat 24 hours after closing schools is like going to A&E right now and handing out complaint forms for the wait times.
- Seriously, WHO looks at teachers and thinks: Wow, these folks have loads of spare energy. They should teach for MORE hours each day! After studying teacher’s daily lives for nearly 4 years, our overwhelming evidence is that their days are really long and really packed!