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New Post 📝 Ever been in a meeting where you are the only person who disagrees? Or a CPD session where you have to say it was worth it, even though it was a waste of time? This is groupthink. When professionals are unable to disagree, it can ruin a school. joel120193.substack.com/p/why-teache...

joel120193.substack.comWhy Teachers Agree to Things They Hate: GroupthinkEducation has a lot of problems, however, one of the main problems that floods education policy, decision making and general direction within trusts and individual schools is groupthink.

I think this is a big issue in schools so will be interested to read. Having said that, I think it’s sometimes not so much “groupthink” in the classic sense as not wanting to put your head above the parapet.

This actually is groupthink, it's called self-censorship and everyone does it to the detriment of themselves and others.

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In the end I got sick of it...I became a Head of science to stop having to do what they said, I then got tired of AHT telling me wrong things about t&l so I went into SLT......