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I am a teacher. I literally do this every day and have for 16 years.

It must be galling to people working in sweets development that the pioneers of chocolate bars basically got it bang on with their first gos.

Up a lot of teachers' street... @bennewmark.bsky.social

I must thank @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com for being so enthused about the De Gaulle film meaning i got off my arse to actually see it. Glorious, just glorious. Am not obviously a war film fan but this managed to be both funny and tremendously moving. The entire Bir Hakeim section? Incredible.

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Incredible run of graffiti in Newcastle.

I don't remember it being as good as this.

Very interested to see the UK version of this. Wild to discover that drinking 1 drink a week puts you amongst only 30% Americans.

We did it.

No helpful comments but just to say I also did my radiators this weekend and it is probably my favourite house job?

Movie posters that could only be put up in British railway stations, one of a series of probably one.

Honestly given this and the photo of the Physics guy, if I ever won a Nobel Prize I would absolutely not want someone taking a photo of me. For various reasons.

this is so fucking sad

8/10 If we believe this, time becomes an uncomfortable question. Professional learning can't perpetually live in INSET days, twilight sessions & whatever remains. Protected professional learning isn't asking teachers to work more. It may require schools to deliberate on what we should do less of.

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Nice and nuanced post that makes good reading alongside @bennewmark.bsky.social recent comments.

*bangs head against wall forever* Apparently the way Burnham thinks we get parity of esteem is by saying vocational quals are for non-academic kids.

There's also a lot of good reading in here for Child Language in A Level Lang (staff or students!) @englangblog.bsky.social

The extent of the PISA gap between England and other western European countries in particular is extraordinary In reading, the 25% most disadvantaged young people in England outperformed the average for all students in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway and many other countries

There is no "should be" about Freshers' Week.

Yes it is and yes they do.

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

I read this and I can still hear the same voice who wrote Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie wheb he was just 22.

There is a moment in ep 7 of the new #ColinfromAccounts which made me simultaneously gasp aloud and cackle hysterically.

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

This day our cook maid (we having no luck in maids now-adays), which was likely to prove a good servant, though none of the best cooks, fell sick and is gone to her friends, having been with us but 4 days.

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

Once again, the biggest problem with violent far right thugs making our streets dangerous is not that they might not vote Labour.

picking a side in a face off between street fash and the RNLI is not fucking Sophie's Choice, it's strawberry ice cream or a bucket of shit. and the Home Office go for the bucket every time.

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I missed this from a few weeks ago. So many ideas which reveal complete ignorance of the wider system and the evidence re: teacher bias. Just, no. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Random fact of the day - Sally Rooney is in fact younger than Taylor Swift.

"Some people just work harder. I mean show me a woman who is a CEO." "Elizabeth Holmes."

Is anyone watching English Teacher on Disney? Unexpectedly enjoying it. Some properly acerbic lines. Also glad I don't teach in the American system!

I think what you realise from these types of story is that there are so many, endless ways to do good in the world - whether you have Dolly's money or not.

So many juvenile ideas about what rebellion & revolution are. Dolly put money & time into things that helped people she might never meet. She gave of herself musically AND made her fame a vehicle for generosity. Sincere, unswerving, true charity. Only revolutionary because too few w/ power try it.

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

I understand why students do this but as a HOD English it's so depressing.

Something tells me that universities won't be blamed for high graduate unemployment in the way we are blaming schools for NEETs...

Wild last sentence.

Saw this in an FT article. "Journalism is full of adult children who have followed their parents into the job — so too, plumbing, farming and teaching." Does @teachertapp.bsky.social have info on this? Would be interested to know! www.ft.com/content/42bf...

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