Definitely a compliment!

It wouldn’t matter what the schools taught - when these kids are on the streets the gang members are absolute authorities on the police and evading the law - the kids believe anything the gang tells them. It’s a type of brain washing.

It’s understandable that they don’t fight. Pensions seem like an archaic thing even though they shouldn’t be. I think young people understand that wealth and income is going to look very different in the future.

That whole piece… I wish it was surprising but it’s just the echoes of justification from generations past

My parents who are extremely pro science and vaccines apparently didn’t get us whooping cough vaccines due to a scare at the time (80’s) we had all our others. I deliberated about the sheer number of shots our boys had as infants. It needs a big public health drive.

In more general terms further to Isabelle’s point - buy in requires community, inclusion and identity - all of which are driven by very different drivers to academic improvement and are much harder to measure. Good schools are felt, not paper exercises.

Some of the smartest people I know are obsessive doodlers and neurodivergent learners often learn best without ‘tracking’ because it’s not how their attention works. This is why blanket rules are dangerous - they remove the teachers discretion to facilitate real learning as opposed to compliance

Poor mental health is the inevitable consequence of the complete removal of security and economic safety from people’s lives. Mental health services are critical but the numbers will just keep rising if people can’t keep a house, job, friends, health etc

That is why the whole ‘bag’ of rules should be minimal - the more lines there are the more suffocating it feels. Do you need a sock rule? Or an eye movement rule?

I loved learning but hated school because of all the petty rules, especially uniform. Felt like every tiny attempt at self expression was stamped on so I played truant a lot.

I loved that - I avoid rewatching things for that very reason.

Is it just an English version of Astrid? I really liked that and I’d be surprised if a remake were any good.

Indeed - I think the issue is too many people who are making those policies are people who liked school, value rules and grew up around education. For those of us that hated school, pointless rules about uniform are just another daily torture. I loved learning but found school suffocating.

That said, your point about the language is spot on - get rid of the ambiguity and false messaging in favour of transparency.

It blows my mind that nails, socks and other infractions of essentially mild self expression end up in #isolation and in some schools this can go on for days on end. #behaviour Sweat the small stuff was never meant to be about turning schools into Victorian city states.

Just watching GofT for the 1st time and it’s awesome!

Well that should be really helpful 🤬 it’s not like parents haven’t been clamouring to anyone who will listen for literally years!

You don’t need to try to make JRM look like Ebeneezer 🤣🤣