Andrew Warner

@DavidDidau @VallanceTeach I like pineapple on pizza 🫣

Oh my days. The enduring appeal of edu nonsense open.substack.com/pub/daviddidau…

@DavidNautilus1 @ShakinthatChalk Regular readers will probably earn more money. That’s all.

The idea that children will somehow lead inferior lives if they don’t spend their free time reading paperbacks, may not be true.

😎It's matchday, so here's Anton Stach's Men In Black IG post. #LUFC

@RobinBuxton3 @BarryNSmith79 How’s staff turnover at your place?

@BarryNSmith79 Need to be honest about learner engagement, sir. Kids don’t ask to go to the toilet if they are fully engaged. I find though that by allowing teachers to let kids go to the loo I am provided with data about whose lessons need to be learning-walked. 👍

Similarly, kids didn’t used to claim a NEED to go to the toilet repeatedly in lesson time. Often whilst choosing not to go at breaks/lunch. Very often deliberate work avoidance. Need to be honest.

@tes This could be the most backward edu thing I’ve seen in a while. 😭😭😭😂

The DfE announces funding to train hundreds more educational psychologists amid fears that schools are facing a shortage of support tes.com/magazine/news/…

If more people outside of education could see what can happen inside schools, there would be a much bigger constituency for change. Part of the problem is that people outside the sector find it hard to grasp how challenging it is to manage a room with 25 children when some of them don’t care to do as they are asked.

@MichaelRosenYes @SuellaBraverman I should hope not. What a daft suggestion.

@SuellaBraverman Tolkien? Is Tolkien in any syllabus you know?

No. English Literature does not need to be ‘more diverse’… Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens, Hardy, Orwell, Tolkien: who cares if they’re white?!? Classic English Literature is one of the best in the world, defines our culture and has inspired many contemporary writers. And the writing is just beautiful. Schools are failing kids if they don’t teach them because they’re deemed too difficult or not diverse enough (whatever that nonsense means!). More dumbing down from Labour.

@simonmontefiore Van Gogh was right 😁🥹

Wow

The idea of my child being educated predominantly via AI gives me the chills An education denuded of life, meaning, and joy. No thanks.

A lot of the very loud voices against suspension / exclusion appear to come from very biased & often ill informed positions. Many of them haven’t run schools.

Some more light reading for the secret new show.

We’re teaching children to see struggle as signs of mental ill health. In doing so, schools risk becoming places of emotional management rather than intellectual growth, thus becoming traumagenic. What if suffering is a sane response to adversity, not a condition to be treated? Link below ⬇️

@hollieteaches @greeborunner @adamboxer1 Has it been published?

@adamboxer1 Two paragraphs on curriculum in our new Ofsted report!

NEW EPISODE Given that Ofsted don't care about curriculum any more, was all that paperwork and effort a waste of time?

@VinceBoley “Remember your why”. What does that mean?

The four cliche phrases every teacher loves to hear.

@bunnnybutt @RealConorOil @waltermasterson Do as you are told and be a good boy. Bad boy.

@andrewwarnerkms @RealConorOil @waltermasterson Im NOT googling anything. I’m RETIRED dip stick. I don’t need a job. I put in my 40 years. You want to critique the use of the English language on X you have guaranteed yourself a WORTHLESS job the rest of your life. Congrats. !!

My daughter came back from school and told us she learned that George Washington owned slaves. Do liberals think this an appropriate lesson for a 2nd year law school student?

@bunnnybutt @RealConorOil @waltermasterson Google “use of upper and lower case letters in the English language” please. It may help you get work.

@RealConorOil @waltermasterson SO YOU have NO PROBLEM with WHITE PEOPLE OWNING other Human beings. NICE TO KNOW. A 2nd YEAR LAW STUDENT is NOT A SECOND GRADER. Your READING COMPREHENSION is LACKING, and that is a UNDERSTATEMENT No wonder YOU are so CONFUSED, you DO NOT COMPREHEND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

@RealConorOil @waltermasterson No they weren’t. Idiot.

@waltermasterson The Founding Fathers were Trump-loving, Republican patriots and did nothing wrong. 2nd graders shouldn't be learning any of that woke bullshit!!

@waltermasterson I don’t see the problem. Everyone knows he did. It’d be a bit bloody weird if he didn’t!. 🤦‍♂️

@spikedonline It’s great history. Love it.

‘The Rest is History’ is history as it should be. Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland talk about the past as it was – messy, complex, human – without the usual finger-wagging or performative outrage. It is the tonic Britain needs right now, says Miriam Cates. buff.ly/g7rTb68