Tom John

As an organ donor, I figure it's important to stay healthy.

@DrEilidhMaria I can't help but think it's a problem with the economy as a whole so I'm not sure what can change. The public sector is the enemy, your wage is a waste of money to the greediest ones who direct politics the way they want it to go. You and so many others deserve better.

Dyslexia-friendly subtitles on TV Easy way to make the world a bit nicer for people

@trentbartonland Thanks Henry, I wonder if there are some slow roadworks further along the route to Mansfield than where we live (Kilburn)

@tomaszjohn Hi Tom. I completely apologise for the distress this afternoon. We are seeing delays of up to 40 minutes. The 17:20 is running 28 minutes late into Derby. - Henry

@trentbartonland Hi, is the removal of the 9.1 bus from Derby to Mansfield at 5.20pm a permanent change or just the last two days? Thanks

@trentbartonland Hi, my wife has the same problem again today. Still waiting for the 9.1 from Derby at 5.20pm.

@tomaszjohn Hi Tom. The 9.1 due from Derby Bus Station at 17:20 wasn't cancelled but was running 30 minutes late as the bus departed Derby, Corporation Street at 17:50:50. Many apologies for keeping you waiting this evening ~ James

@trentbartonland Thanks James, no worries.

@redgierob @naomicfisher True, I didn't enjoy school but never entertained the idea of not going.

‘School hasn’t changed! Why are so many more young people unable to attend? Don’t they just have to learn to put up with it?’ I’m often asked all of these questions. So here’s a quick answer. School has changed since most of us over the age of 30 were there. Starting in 2010 with Michael Gove, there was a deliberate shift in schools to a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’. This meant, more focus on learning information and facts. Less focus on play, creativity, problem solving and social and emotional skills. There was a philosophy which ignored child development and instead focusing on how to get more information into children and more test results out. More standardised tests have been introduced starting in primary school. Phonics Screening, Multiplication Tables, Spelling Punctuation and Grammar ‘checks’ AKA tests. Secondary schools have become more controlling. I hear regularly of schools where children walk along lines painted on the corridors in silence. I hear of frequent use of detention and isolation. Parents tell me quietly and say that they can’t complain openly because their children don’t want them to make a fuss. There’s a lot of focus on exam results, and education has become about retaining information. All of this has a huge impact on children’s day-to-day experience. More pressure has been introduced throughout the system. There are fewer options for those who don’t enjoy academics. Teachers are stressed, parents are stressed and it all results in stressed children. When they start to say they can’t go to school, the answer is more pressure. When parents complain they’re called vexatious. The answer is fines and threats. No one is listening. So, no, I don’t think this is the ‘real world’ and they ‘just have to learn’. I do think that something has changed. Schools have become less child-friendly, and the children are telling us so.

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.

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.@DerbysPolice @derbyshirecc There are two sheep loose on Horsley Road, on the Kilburn side of Tants Meadow

@derpolcontact See above!

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Decrease in energy, decrease in free time (depending on life choices!)

People in their 40s and over, what's something that people in their 20s don't realize will impact them as they get older?

The "pro" in Saudi Pro League is short for "prohibited"

@NoLieWithBTC 😳

Trump just terminated the Chair of the Kennedy Center and has installed himself as the new chair. He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.

BBC forecast a hurricane for Britain but HAARP forgot to switch it on this morning Conspiracy theory that even conspirators misconspire

I bloody love a Pot Noodle but COVID has made me gluten intolerant. Any news on a gluten free version, @potnoodle?

@matt_animals Assuming the towels have the motor skills to make this request, they could potentially do it themselves. "We're dryers, not tryers"

Please, me up top. Thank you.

I invented a dog character called Muttball. Draw Muttball, post Muttball and use hashtags #muttball #muttballchallenge

10 extra hours per day but without ageing by ten extra hours *Picks up psychedelic telephone to the galactic federation* Looking forward to hearing what their equivalent of "you treat this place like a bloody hotel" is