Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Politics
Original poster

#frothers Unite!! Time for change.

999 replies

northernmonkey · 02/12/2011 10:15

Hello to all you #frothers
Thought I'd take the liberty of starting us a nice new thread as the other is getting rather full. :)

OP posts:
Hullygully · 05/12/2011 13:41

Just looked at the blog (still waiting for email that can't get at yet for other reasons).

I think the main type body needs to be darker, it's very pale.

Hullygully · 05/12/2011 13:43

yy to blurb rewrite

KateMiddIeton · 05/12/2011 13:44

This is the comment thread on Facebook to suggest things we should be looking at, examining, reporting on etc etc and campaigns we should be highlighting.

www.facebook.com/frothers/posts/211286135614338

MmeLindor. · 05/12/2011 13:44

Hully
I did change that to darker, but it must not have save properly. My pet hate is when a blogger uses dark background with white type, cause I cannot read it easily.

I don't bother reading blogs that I have to strain to read.

Kate
No, go ahead and write something else.

I like that, Te.

KateMiddIeton · 05/12/2011 13:46

Maybe black font? High contrast is better for people with visual disabilities.

NorfolkNCarolSingers · 05/12/2011 13:46

Twitter page looks fab cough splutter need more Lemsip

Have uploaded my blog post, hope you all like it, I am dying of man-flu so might not be totally coherent.

MmeLindor. · 05/12/2011 13:46

Hunty
Are you on FB? Do you want me to post your (excellent) comment on FB?

TeWiharaMeriKirihimete · 05/12/2011 13:47

With the text, perhaps a little darker but with a blue tint?

Black on white is hard for a lot of people to read.

KateMiddIeton · 05/12/2011 13:48

It will be strange to see my words loaded by me. It's dead eerie seeing your words being quoted and reproduced on the tinterweb, But also wonderful and lovely.

Should we have bi-lines on the posts for those who don't want anonymity? Obviously not a priority but it's nice to know who's posting what.

Clever lot you are Smile

MmeLindor. · 05/12/2011 13:56

Am getting confused about who wrote what, but the Gove piece is fecking brilliant. Oh, checked it again. It was Norfolk. Well done.

NorfolkNCarolSingers · 05/12/2011 13:57

Thank you bows

CardyMow · 05/12/2011 13:59

I'll post on fb in a sec. . My net connection keeps playing up too, which is rather irritating!

MmeLindor. · 05/12/2011 14:02

I have noticed that the blog is featured on MN Blogger Network. I will send them the logo to add to the featured blogs page.

CardyMow · 05/12/2011 14:04

The new blog posts by Norfolk, Peachy, MmeLindor and FrothingAngry are brilliant. Page looks good too.

Have posted my comment on fb now.

RatherBeOnThePiste · 05/12/2011 14:05

Excellent blog Norfolk about Gove /Wilshaw

Really pissed off about W's assertion that SEN is ?too quickly used as a cover for not teaching them well enough in the early years?.

Really pissed off.

MmeLindor. · 05/12/2011 14:06

Yes, that comment was rather a jaw-drop-moment.

MmeLindor. · 05/12/2011 14:10

Right. Thought about using Twitter to our advantage.

Can you all have a think about your area of expertise and come up with a list of people and institutions who are influential in that area. Then we can follow them. Some of them will follow back, some will not.

So

Teaching unions
Charities
Campaigners

etc

And the MPs and ministers who deal with the areas that we are frothing about.

Anyone else?

KnottyLocks · 05/12/2011 14:11

Gawd, they'll be wanting to bring back the cane soon.

Just a bunch of bully boys.

KateMiddIeton · 05/12/2011 14:13

And Think Tanks and other NGOs.

Have just followed CIPD for their press releases. I'm a member so can get full access to their website for bigger picture.

NorfolkNCarolSingers · 05/12/2011 14:21

Education:

@timesed
@tafkam1979
@bobtheteach
@rantingteacher
@schoolcouncils
@guardianedu
@ofstednews
@tele_education
@speakupteachers
@ChrisKNASUWT
@nasuwtunion
@huffingtonpost
@christineblower
@pubsecbloggers

RatherBeOnThePiste · 05/12/2011 14:23

Funding to support children with additional needs in the early years of schooling is increasingly difficult to achieve, too many looking for support from a grant fund facing heavy cuts - even though we all recognise that early identification and intervention are the key.

Waiting lists for SALT are ridiculous as pressure on their cut back services increases.

Meanwhile the portage scheme for pre school age children has had its funding taken away, and highly experienced portage staff are losing their jobs, and families and children with complex needs are missing out. Portage was funded by the Department For Schools, Children and Families but now relies on fundraising. I've even heard of someone running a cake sale to raise funds for portage. It has come to that.

Really pissed off...

KateMiddIeton · 05/12/2011 14:28

Yup SALT lists are ridiculous. I have spent £1,000 on SALT for my DS in the last two months. Every penny is worth it. He has language finally and every day he has more. He has no savings any more, but he has speech.

KateMiddIeton · 05/12/2011 14:30

Have read all the posts now. Wow. Just wow. So powerful.

MmeLindor. · 05/12/2011 14:32

Thanks, Norfolk. Have followed them all from the account.

KateMiddIeton · 05/12/2011 14:32

Norfolk that is a great post on the blog. Really, really good. I am saving it for the FB post tomorrow.

Who wrote the homelessness post? That was great too. Really accessible to the sort of people who should be getting involved.