Jon White, Inclusion Lead, Clare Mount, Wirral.

@ICT_MrP Absolute rubbish. I'm 54 next year. I walked home from school in year 3. How I got over the dangerous road outside school even then I have no idea. I got knocked down at 10 years of age. Childhood has disappeared in urban spaces, it's nothing to do with independence erosion.

I think teaching is more challenging now than ever before, and some will blame the children, I don’t think it’s them, kids are kids, what I feel has changed is their experience of childhood and here are some examples of what I mean

I laughed when someone said Iran (not Israel and the US) started this war. What’s less funny is that almost all the experts, including Trump’s own director of intelligence, said there was no evidence of nuclear weapons, but somehow Iranian schoolgirls still have to be burnt alive

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So… dearest media, stop regurgitating lazy, classist nonsense and start taking some responsibility for the damage you’re doing to a vulnerable minority community. Stop allowing your ‘guests’ to peddle such decisive nonsense without challenging… or better still, INVITE SOME ACTUAL DISABLED PEOPLE to join in these debates, and give us some fucking representation! Sincerely, A disabled woman with receipts, rage, and definitely not a free BMW. (Available for media interviews)

And while we’re at it, let’s consider what mobility actually means…. It means being able to get to medical appointments. It means having the opportunity to access work to become financially stable … or volunteering in an already struggling infrastructure. It means having some semblance of independence in a society that would otherwise prefer we just stay indoors and shut up.

Still with me? Good. Because I’m not finished. Let’s talk economics. Because while you’re crying about us getting “free cars,” here’s a stat you seem to conveniently ignore: The Motability scheme contributes £3.4 billion to the UK economy every year. It supports over 45,000 jobs across the automotive and service sectors. That’s mechanics, dealerships, call centres, manufacturers. It’s keeping your precious economy alive. We aren’t bleeding the system dry — we’re oiling its bloody wheels.

@tombennett71 It's a rule. And rules are for control. I think what is being disagreed about can be termed a value. Those disagreeing with you have different values? Would it be better if we took the time (including the children) to decide the values we want to see in school together?

Asking kids to be quiet for two minutes, 3 or 4 times a day is not unreasonable. It should be up to schools to run their behaviour systems the way they want. If they want silent corridors, that’s fine. And fine if not. There is no controversy here. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I’m hearing from ever more parents of primary school aged children that their children really don’t like school. They say that it’s boring, that they have to sit for long hours listening. Parents say that young children are taught things which they, their parents, have never needed to know. Things like ‘fronted adverbials’ and the difference between homophones and homographs. Which wouldn’t matter if the children were interested and curious, but this isn’t why they are learning those things. They’re learning them because someone has decided that this is the best way for young children to spend their time. That these – fronted adverbials, for example - are the most important things. Parents say that their children are stressed about school work before they’ve even turned seven. They say that children wake up at night worrying that they’ll be put in the Red Zone or taken off the Sun and put on the Rain Cloud. They say that when they tell school that their child doesn’t want to come, school tells them that maybe home is just too nice. They suggest that rather than improving their experience of school, parents should focus on making their experience of home worse so school seems better in comparison. Huh? How does that make any sense? We’re losing a generation of children. They’re learning that they don’t like to learn, at the stage of their lives when they should be bursting with curiosity and excitement. By the time they are nine, some of them are already saying that school is ‘just something to get through’. Here’s my take. Education shouldn’t be about ‘information in’. The first priority should not be covering content or passing tests. That is something which can happen later, but first? We need to inspire children about learning. When our young children think that they are stupid. When our six-year-olds learn that learning is irrelevant and difficult. When our eight-year-olds believe that they are bad because they can’t sit still and concentrate? Those things last a lifetime. This is the foundation of education. If we get it wrong now, we’ll be dealing with the consequences far into the future. Our children need change.

@MelAinscow In the Wirral the new SEND places funding into the Liverpool City Region is being translated into £180k per secondary school for the school to house a 'pod' for 12 students with SEND on the school grounds.

I am concerned about the increase in special units being created in mainstream schools under the banner of ‘inclusive education’. I am told by DfE insiders that politicians love it. My worry is that, in some contexts, this may be yet a further move to segregate some learners.

I always say to staff & my presentations that the 3 most important things for schools to thrive are? 1.Relationships 2.Relationships 3.Relationships Successful schools thrive on relationships. Schools are determined by the quality of relationships. No mention of it here.😌🧠🌱

@FloraSCooper Don’t disagree but ‘inadequate’ labels, relentless surveillance & fear are what some schools do to kids, & disproportionately SEN kids every day The disregard for wellbeing runs throughout the system - but it sometimes feels like it’s only called out when it affects the adults

Ofsted: ‘Wellbeing matters to us.’ Also Ofsted: Ignores high staff absence, overwhelming increase in SEN, safeguarding & relentless challenging behaviour. Slaps on ‘Inadequate,’ wrecks morale & walks away. Wellbeing? They never cared. It's just labels, fear, & destruction.

@tes It is a very good requirement. The ‘leaders’ who fear this are those who who want to get away with employing teaching staff on the cheap. It’s large MATs especially - and of course it is. How say you @HarrisFed, for example? Are you paying your Caribbean teachers properly yet?

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@Strickomaster They don't want the teachers would be a fair extension of the logic going forward over the long term. To say that schools are in a fork in a road would be an understatement as well parked in a layby waiting for what tech will bring with accompanying policy. Limbo times.

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@SENDinfoBucks @tes @Parentkind Anxiety does not exist in a vacuum. It's not about enjoyment in learning. It's about working out what and who, schools are actually for. Behaviour is communication. Spotting and acting on red flags is part of the professional behaviours of education professionals. Great report.

@tes @Parentkind frontiersin.org/journals/psych… School distress and the school attendance crisis: a story dominated by neurodivergence and unmet need  Sophie E. Connolly Hannah L. Constable Sinéad L. Mullally Sept 2023 Can’t attend- different to refusal. Your yes to fines % is problematic

With research suggesting that nearly a third of children refused to go to school at least once in the past year, @Parentkind is calling for the curriculum review to make school more enjoyable tes.com/magazine/news/…