Anthony Shaw

@DanaPalubiak Some quit because they don't care. Some quit because they want a desk job. Some quit to care for children Some quit because they're rubbish at the job. Some (many) quit because they're asked to do 5 people's job and can't say no.

Teachers don't quit because they don't care. They quit because they're asked to do the work of five professionals for the pay of less than one. And then they're told they didn't do enough.

@empirical_Tea @FixingEducation So ignore the huge barriers that many students have and just expect children to cope?

@FixingEducation You have described equity. Which is why we should stick with equality. Give everyone the same opportunities. What individuals do with that opportunity is up to them.

Schools spend hours trying to “reach” the kid who openly doesn’t care, while the kid who tries every day quietly gets ignored. We’re exhausting ourselves chasing resistance instead of investing in effort.

@FixingEducation Its not a choice. You can do both and you should do both. Often the hard to reach kid doesn't have anyone else fighting for them so teachers have to.

@grahambc1 @dylanwiliam @marcportermagee What is your suggestion for a better measure?

@dylanwiliam @marcportermagee Progress 8 is a very poor measure of a school. My school did CATs on entry, I run some simple analysis comparing CATs in Maths, usually a good indication of ability Vs KS2 results and you could see how some primaries over performed , one in particular was an outlier.

As far as I can’t tell there is very little research that answers a question a lot of parents have: Does sending your child to a demanding school with genuinely high intellectual standards increase the odds they will be measurably better educated in the substantive sense?

@OnlineTutor3293 @adamboxer1 Governors and PTAs know little to nothing about education practices and what good looks like.

@adamboxer1 What used to be called schools used to have boards of governors - of which teachers and parents participated - PTAs, and were run by LEAs. Now academies have private sector executive boards and a politicised regulator. We could just return to what used to be.

Abolish Ofsted and replace them with...what? All the proposed "local accountability" models sum to substantial bias (both for and against). Like it or not, education is in public ownership so needs a regulator and external accountability. So...replace them with what?

@vicgoddard Got that one right!

As teachers we should aspire for students/children to enjoy learning.

@AdrianBethune I agree. I'm not as good as I was but I think I'm good enough while being a good dad too (I hope!)

I still stand by this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 (and my little boy in the pic is now 9 😭😭😭)

@mjello06 @AnnieBeale1 @Adhdandmebexley There is no cash, at any level. Funding is at an all time low.

9k children were pex last year, we currently pex at 4k a term.. That isn't rare Tom it's outrageous, but keep telling yourself you did a great job 🤷🏼‍♀️👏🏻

@vicgoddard I misread it and clicked yes cos I wanted them to enjoy!!! Oops!

@NikkiHesford @DanielPriestley 41% sounds like a lot less than 60%...

In the USA you need to be earning 8x the average wage before you pay the top rate of tax. In the UK the top rate of tax kicks in at 3x the average wage. The USA lets people become more successful before cutting them off at the knees. The UK shreds your ambition just as soon as you start getting going. Net result, Brits earn 40% less than Americans on average. If England was a US state it would be poorer than Mississippi (the US’s poorest state). The aggressive top rate of tax probably costs the UK £1.2Trillion of GDP annually (£3T economy + 40% uplift).

@AnnieBeale1 Why quote tweet me rather than debate me? This is so strange. Anyway I'm done. You don't want a discussion you want a soap box. Enjoy.

Mr Maths add it up pls and come back when you have read that story pls.

@Hector_McNeil @DanielPriestley That's about the same as someone in the UK on similar salary.

@Hector_McNeil @DanielPriestley But about $25k a year for a family. The median household income is 80k so an effective, additional tax rate of 30%. On top of roughly 12% federal tax (accounting for allowances) plus 5% ish of state income taxes. So a median household pays about 47% in effective rate of 47%ish

@DanielPriestley USA has 120% debt to GDP ratio. If we did that, we'd have hundreds of billions to spend!

@AnnieBeale1 @mjello06 @Adhdandmebexley It wasn't your claim. But you jumped in to defend it. Maybe because you share the ideological hatred of 82% of all secondary schools.

@ShawMaths @mjello06 @Adhdandmebexley And I'm not doing what you claim at all.

@AnnieBeale1 @mjello06 @Adhdandmebexley I didn't mention violence. Please don't put words in my mouth.

@ShawMaths @mjello06 @Adhdandmebexley 1.k towards adults, 1.5k towards a peer, or may be in reverse but that's the violence by stats. The stats tell a very interesting story, I suggest you read it.

@AnnieBeale1 @mjello06 @Adhdandmebexley Then calk out the MATs you have a problem with. I got the number wrong... 82% of all secondaries are Academies. Do you think 82% of school leaders want to hurt children by PEXing them?

@ShawMaths @mjello06 @Adhdandmebexley Ok, some towns have 100% mats at secondary level though, like our borough. It kind of makes an impression on us you know, it leaves a bad taste in our mouths, children ruined by pex.