Class Charts parent & student view

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@Justadulbloke @AdamHighcliffe @teamsquarepeg @tes Oh it’s a real thing alright - emails, school app messages during the school day, evenings, weekends - I wonder how teachers happily invade every minute of parent’s lives & don’t expect any of it back. It’s like they have zero self awareness…?

@AdamHighcliffe @teamsquarepeg @tes I witness it first hand. It is a real thing. E mails, school app messages at weekends some needy some quite confrontational. I wonder how parents have suddenly been given permission to invade teacher's private lives. It's like they think they have a right to access.

It's been a whole weekend since @tes gave parents a kicking, but this story about teachers struggling with 'parent contact' keeps the run going. Yet behind the culture-wars headline, the real story is very different indeed. Let's take a brief look... 🧵

@AdamHighcliffe @tes Oh my - where to begin! Who started ‘pinging’ parents in real time during the school day + evenings & weekends via a behaviour management App? Lost pens, untucked shirts, funny looks…. Seriously? No parent wants this teacher contact.

@tes This was an interesting recent piece: nation.cymru/opinion/why-ar…

Is anyone studying the impact on school and family life of apps such as @tes 's Class Charts? Is the TES?

Why aren’t we talking more about ClassCharts? Behaviour monitoring and children’s wellbeing in Welsh schools nation.cymru/opinion/why-ar…

@englishspecial @warwickmansell @tes It’s absolutely where we are! Watch the dystopian drama Arcadia (Channel 4) if you want to see where this leads…

You do remind me. I was thinking about temporary exclusions and other such punishments and I’m sure I saw somewhere a school or trust was offering, for want of a better phrase, [speed] awareness courses that pupils could do instead of an exclusion. The idea being that like drivers seeking to avoid points (red behaviour points?) they could attend such a course instead. Anyway, it is all on the same theme but you do wonder if that is where we are now with children. Learning licenses and points on the system leading to suspensions.

@warwickmansell @tes 🙋🏻‍♂️

@HelpfulTeacher_ Sparx only shows homework as 100% completed when every answer is correct, not just attempted. There are explanatory videos but they don’t always help, especially if there’s a block. If deadline passes & your child hasn’t got 100% correct, even with multiple attempts = sanction.

@ClassChartsPS Is this true, or rage bait? Is it 100% correct, or to attempt 100% of the questions? We've used similar systems, where it's detention if the student doesn't achieve 40% - it shows they didn't randomly tick boxes for 2 minutes If true, what you've experienced is extreme

The problem is also the ‘rules’ My child is punished for struggling with Maths… Online homework platform Sparx doesn’t log homework as ‘complete’ unless a child gets 💯 % Incomplete homework = detention Missed detention = whole day in isolation

@JohnBaldLangLit 👍🏼DM’d

@ClassChartsPS Done

This is disgraceful and ignorant nonsense. How on earth people like that come to run schools shows just how little bosses know about learning. I'm happy to help your son for free. Plse DM. I have DBS and am FCCT.

@ovierocks1 Oh, I’ve brought attention to it - with the school & SENDCo through the official channels. X activity is for wider awareness raising around this technology - especially for kids with SEND.

@ClassChartsPS Can we not share the name of the school? If you’re a parent of a child there and think this is unfair, bring attention to it. It seems very unfair.

@MathsladyScott Is it just that it’s easier to punish than support? Or is the use of technology for both homework & ‘behaviour management’ removing that all important individual context & human judgment? Doubt a teacher would punish a child for a wrong answer in class❌ Digital dunce cap✔️

That is so sad. Your son needs support in school to be succesful. If teachers are setting up students to fail then they are failing the students 🤔😢

@VivRaper Hard agree (hence the X account to raise concerns about the use of this software) But how much easier it is to just issue a detention & blame the child & by extension the parents? Oh & these behaviour points determine whether kids go on trips/to Prom etc.

@ClassChartsPS This is simply not how this type of software should be used. If a teen is not getting 100%, this is a sign they need additional support - beyond what's available in the software 😡

What we've seen at the Baftas this week is a perfect example of why inclusion doesn't work in mainstream schools People voted for the film to win the award because the idea of disability acceptance is great But when faced with the reality John Davidson felt he had to exclude..

@BSmithPAFC @ShakinthatChalk I think many ‘successful’ women would disagree. If ‘aspirations’ are limited to a western man in a tie, that’s not a standard I want. Schools should prepare all kids for the real world, not cosplay a 1950s boardroom just because ‘it’s far easier to enforce’

@ShakinthatChalk People miss the argument here. Schools are about aspirations. Culturally, historically, the most successful wear ties. Times are changing but many still want theses standards…..and they’re far easier to enact and enforce.

Been thinking on this. What does professional dress mean? Workplaces decide what is appropriate and given only 7% of the workforce wear a shirt and tie then what are the professional expectations? I’d say clean and presentable, not dishevelled or incomplete That’s professional

@dave_mcpartlin Schools are doing this too with real time behaviour apps giving instant feedback in the form of a reward/punishment system that fosters extrinsic motivation & dopamine hits with instant credits for superficial things that don’t require hard work (uniform checks/silent working)

I think I've figured out what's going wrong in schools. One of the biggest challenges facing us (& parents) is the reward environment our children are growing up in. Endless scrolling from as soon as they can control a device. On-demand TV in glorious 4K. Instant feedback & constant stimulation from getting up to going to bed. They're growing up in a different world. Neuroscience tells us that brains adapt to frequent, fast rewards. Children are now hard-wired differently, from birth. School requires patience, effort & delayed gratification. At home, they're don't know how to be bored, they don't need to be any more. They don't communicate in the same way. They don't get excited like they used to. They don't have to work hard for fun in the real world because they can find it so easily online. They've become dopamine junkies & we're on a hiding to nothing - we're not competing with bad behaviour, we're competing with biology (and it's truly terrifying.)

@NaoShoo @TTRadioOfficial Yes, everyone’s needs should be part of the discussion obvs, but he goes further than that - saying quiet pupils felt unsafe/had their lessons constantly disrupted which isn’t just ‘include them too’ it’s ‘they’re losing out to others’ My evening’s finite & I never mix🍺with X👋

@ClassChartsPS @TTRadioOfficial Yes, he's advocating for the needs of the overlooked kids to be included in the discussion. He isn't framing the discussion in terms of exclusion, he's saying that we need to talk about the needs of quiet kids and make sure they are included too. Teacher resources are finite.

TR's Friday thought for the day - Who are we actually including when we talk about 'inclusion'? #inclusion #behaviour #schools #teaching #teachertok #teachersoftiktok

@NaoShoo @TTRadioOfficial From this thread/TTR clip? Rogers clearly frames the ‘talk’ around inclusion as quiet, hardworking kids’ needs being overlooked in favour of disruptive kids Sure, teachers balance needs, but one group’s inclusion doesn’t mean another’s loss There’s a non toxic side of Twitter?

@ClassChartsPS @TTRadioOfficial Where do you get this 'talk' from? Maybe lay off the toxic side of Twitter. I've been listening to TTR for a few years now and haven't heard that framing. Also, the needs of different kids are always balanced against each other, the 'should' is in where the balance lies.

@NaoShoo @TTRadioOfficial Possibly cos the ‘talk’ around inclusion is framed as who’s included (excluded) If teachers don’t know what works yet, then we all need more curiosity And if the real constraints are in the education system, then the needs of 1 group of kids shouldn’t be pitted against another

@ClassChartsPS @TTRadioOfficial I don't see how that's implied. Even if it is, we know it doesn't work so it's not the answer. A more sensible option may be 'removing' the quiet studious kids by offering them their own space, as frequently happens in primary. I don't know what works, that's why we talk.