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Janet Gooodall
@janetifimust.bsky.social
Professor of Education. Parent/family engagement in learning is my research area. Dedicated to schooling and education that are just, equitable, available and lead to a better world. My views are mine, not my employer's.
All of the hats that were left - along with a whole lot more, and scarves, etc. - left my office today in the arms and bag of the students' union welfare officer :)
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
18 - 42 gm - Using the inside and outside ends of a yarn cake together - one is light blue, the other dark but the hat has a greenish tint, which is odd...
November 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Thank you - I'd not seen that. I've forwarded it to colleagues who do work with care experienced young people... Sniffle
November 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We were fortunate to be able to a. work from home and b. be together - DH was often away teaching but happened to be here when LD was declared. But like so many others - we worked, often harder and longer than before or after...
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This - I point this out all the time. And even for the few where the *buildings* closed, the schools went on. The school is not the building. The school is the people, the community, the teaching and learning. It was different, changed - but it went on.
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This happens every year or so... people get ALL!!!! UPSET!!! at ARABIC NUMERALS111!!!!1111!!!

In my UG days, there was a member of faculty who used to say, in sadness, 'Your education has been sadly neglected'... I want to say that a LOT, lately (not at you, obviously!)
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
And the best thing about all this is that the students' union welfare rep is coming to my office (once I finish this last seminar) to pick up many hats to get them to shivering students! It's gone COLD here (for us - 31 F)....
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
17....
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Yes, this - I need tea so I can make tea. It's an unfair world...
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
16 Slightly smaller - 33 gm
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
15... it's actually black and yellow in spite of the lighting. Don't @ me - I know I messed up the stripe pattern near the top. We're going to call it a feature, not a bug...
November 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I've started keeping a spreadsheet of the weight of things as well, as I'm trying to reduce the stash....
November 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Ah that's more problematic - good luck! (I used Etsy for suggestions for my kids of 'what mum would like'...). :)
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Etsy? They have a wish list...
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Five of these left my office today in the hands of a student who will distribute them to their students. :)
November 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM