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Hackney Parents Defending Education: Creative schools not exam factories. Community schools not forced academies.

Hackney, London Katılım Nisan 2016
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Hackney Parents
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Keep up pressure on headteachers and governors not to open the doors to privatisation
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Talk to grandparents, friends, family in other constituencies, particularly marginal Tory ones in the shires
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Let's spread the word: have conversations with other parents (few people are aware that Hackney stands to lose 20% of its ed. budget)
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'Let Kids Be Kids' strike taught us that parents will be concerned about whether teachers are supportive of the action
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Support our teachers and build coalitions - if teachers vote to strike, join the picket lines, send emails of support to your class teacher
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Local schools (including Stoke Newington School) have been successful in the past in fighting off academisation
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Local schools are at the heart of our communities and we can't let them be privatised
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Proposed legislation - 'Education for All' - can be killed if we build broad coalition based on community, public ownership, w/ teachers
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The govt is also very susceptible to pressure from the 'Mumsnet' lobby
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BUT: govt is weak now: climb down on academisation by statute, junior doctors' strike, Brexit all mean this is a good time to take action
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Hackney Parents@HackneyParents·
LEAs are not allowed to build new schools; free schools can open in places where there are no shortages, competing w/local community schools
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There are an abundance of qualified teachers in the UK but a huge number leaving profession, and catastrophic shortage of places for kids
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Excessive demands placed on teachers by testing regime: reception teacher spent 60 hours administering baseline tests which were scrapped
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this ballot on pay & conditions is referendum about SATs, total chaos and fragmentation in the curriculum, lack of creativity and autonomy
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NUT is ballotting teachers now on strike action, ballots due 23 June, action of approved on 5 July
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This week the UK is being grilled by a UN Committee on the RIghts of the Child; children's mental health is issue for discussion.
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@HackneyParents #sthash.shaw21aK.dpufhttps://newint.org/features/2016/04/01/edu-businesses-impact/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newint.org/features/2016/…
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PISA works w/ Pearson - global testing co. which owns Bridge Int'l ('vertically integrated Academy-in-a-box model, Starbucks-style’ school)
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