The child who is not embraced by their village will burn it down to find some warmth. (African proverb). Low/zero tolerance punitive and toxic power cultures create disenfranchised adults. Some will struggle quietly, others will struggle anti-socially. So the ‘keeping everyone safe’ is superficial.

This culture was lorded and encouraged by government. A whole load of the preferred academies and chains have embedded these practices.
The damage to children will be untold.
People like us? The woke blob. The enemies of promise.

Used a new verb - ‘whiterosing’ it by which they meant teaching a lesson with prepared slides without knowing what the next slide was going to say and blagging it in the moment!!!!

This is what teaching is becoming - it’s so wrong!

I’d never thought about this! Such a good point!!!!
Reading is about so much more than the sounds the letters make. I can’t understand why it’s so hard for some to understand that!