The Teachers’s Republic Refuge - solidarity comrades!

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So continuing on from our boycott/flowers we need to continue to defend our profession. This is teacher/school staff chat - if you do not fall into that category please start you own thread elsewhere.

#solidarity

Mark Enser can cheer us up :

He has 133K followers and this managed to get just 87 likes and hundreds of negative comments in over an hour. I think this shows that the public are not with him on this. They appreciate the job we are doing. At least we can take comfort in that

Neil Kinnock need to shout at him like he did to Derek Hatton back in the day.

He could say 'and you, a Labour peer, a LABOUR peer, get out, go on, off you fuck'*

*paraphrasing slightly

I was in a week ago and tonight the sore throat and aching legs has started. Hmm.

I'm steering clear of that guy's Twitter, it'll be bad for my health, I'm sure.

Who - Mark Enser? He's the geography chap isn't he? He seems to be a good egg from past dealings with him before I abandoned EduTwitter

Yes, they are all gunning for him, the EduTwitter massive!

Maybe we should add some flowers 😂

Oh no Betty! Hope you're ok? Can u get a test?

Mark Enser is a legend. As a geographer too he's been so helpful and always has time for other teachers. He is indeed a good egg.

I should not have gone on Twitter. Adonis my bum! More Mr Ugly personality.

Morning everyone.

I feel shattered. I've done 2.5 hours of work already (recording videos for each class).
Now I'm ready for a break, but instead I have to motivate dd2 to do some work because we've ignored quite a lot of it this week . She needs to write a poem and she really, really, really hates poetry. I am not an English teacher so we'll pretty much copy the poem we've been given as inspiration, changing a few words here and there. Wish me luck! "Teaching" dd2 is definitely harder than actually teaching 30 year 10s

I've got a test on the way. Whether or not I do it is another matter, I hear it's akin to the Egyptian brain removal technique.

I will not go back on #Edutwitter x 100 I haven't already had a look

Laura McInerney has our back twitter.com/miss_mcinerney/status/1256128771243073536?s=21

Adonis is just spewing out more and more bile. It's really upset me - I usually agree with him but he just seems to have contempt for us and is doubling down more and more .

I am SO fed up of this rhetoric that full online love teaching is a proxy for classroom teaching.

It is being peddled quite hard by some in education so that, if they got us all doing it, they would not have to make any concessions at all to year 10 and 12 student next year, on the grounds that they have had 'full teaching'.

Bollocks.

I do like Laura M but am becoming increasingly worried that Teacher Tapp surveys are being trawled by educational people as if they are proper , conclusive research. You only need to look at the answers to some of the lifestyle type questions to see that the respondents are not a full cross section of teachers.

So in the past three days we’ve had Spielman, Wilshaw and Adonis denigrating the work schools have done. Frankly their viewpoint stands at odds with the profession I’ve seen. I’ve seen people at all levels step up and overcome numerous challenges...
I’ve seen all this happen at a relentless pace and we undoubtedly have got some things wrong but it hasnt been for a want of trying to get it right. We’ve not had time off, we’ve not been lazy l and I for one am damn proud of our profession and our schools

The above is edited highlights of Simon Smith' rather wonderful response.

I rather love this image!

There was a comment on that twitter thread that people see online live lessons as the gold standard because it’s the most work for the teacher and the least work for the student.

I think it needs to be added to that that it’s the least work for the parent, and that’s why parents are clamouring first them. If the teacher is there, then any lack of engagement is not their problem.

duchess , can you imagine what the MN massive would say about us if we tweeted 206 times in an hour?!

Am also fed up of him promoting Oak Bank. I know plenty of you one here like it, but it is not personalised, differentiated etc etc (obviously) and the GCSE English stuff is littered with errors and very poor. I doubt he has even examined the quality of it, so busy is he touting an agenda.

Or considered the fact that those teachers were supplied with the equipment to make those lessons and IT support to create the videos and resources...
Fuckwit.

Intrigued what you said now Piggy.

This thread is beautiful:

twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/1256105556860964868/photo/2

Yes, it really just feels like he has an agenda and it's not a good look. Even if they have the tech, why would everyone want kids justv in front of screens all day? And why is he speaking as if we were instructed to do it and refused/failed? We've had precious litte in the way of instructions/guidance.

Online live teaching is a very poor proxy for classroom teaching, and it just wouldn't work for most families.
We've just had an email from our head thanking us for all our hard work. But he reminded us that the pupils are finding this difficult and we need to reduce our expectations of them. The parental complaints (not really complaints, more letting us know if issues) have been that a) there is too much work being set for an hour, and the kids are getting stressed out and b) there are too many online tasks, as pupils can't access them all due to shared computers and inadequate internet provision in their village

How the hell would our kids access full online live teaching? When they have to share one computer between 3 kids, or the broadband can't cope with 2 videos being streamed at the same time.

We, and they, are doing the best we can with the resources available.

I think one thing he asked in that speech was why the government had not issued proper guidance. That said, he made it clear what he felt the guidance should be.

I think you are right that the screen time thing I being massively overlooked. In a normal school day, in most schools, a child might have anything from 0 to maybe 3 hours screen time (their own phones aside).