Green Party Education policy offers an alternative to the neoliberal consensus on education. Education for life NOT for industry.Unofficial account by GP member
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GreenEdPolicy retweeted
Emergency foster care.
7 - What’s this?
Me - This is your bedroom
7 - Do you sleep here?
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7 - All night? Until morning?
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GreenEdPolicy retweeted
I’ve seen a confidential document from Lynton Crosby’s lobbying firm which advises Boris Johnson to ride roughshod over every convention and standard of propriety to pack the House of Lords.
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GreenEdPolicy retweeted
I'm with this 95%.
Son is in Year 6.
Scrap Sats! @TheGreenParty say so too.
💥New research!
Parents, heads, teachers and children agree: SATs this year are NOT helping learning.
Write to your MP today: bit.ly/33vHo5g
GreenEdPolicy retweeted
DfE please take this down. You do not know the situation for 24360 schools in England. You are not working in them. You are not caring for families who have concerns. You can not make this decision. We have already made the decision that is best for our community.
With parents looking forward to attending their child's upcoming nativity, play or concert, we explain why these festive events can go ahead this year.
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GreenEdPolicy retweeted
💉Many teachers and school staff had their last vaccination 5 months ago.
😟Their immunity is waning, just as we enter the most risky time of teaching in stuffy, unventilated classrooms.
😡Teachers and educators will not be offered the booster as they 'are not frontline staff'!
GreenEdPolicy retweeted
If the government were serious about home learning during lockdown, they would have hired strings of experts in our fields - writers, scientists, historians, geographers etc and got us to talk directly on zoom to different ages of students for 20-30 minute chunks.
GreenEdPolicy retweeted
They have been encouraged in that by DfE messaging this week; however, under union pressure, the DfE has now been forced to revise its guidance.
The DfE now says: Critical worker parents and caters should keep their children at home if they can.
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GreenEdPolicy retweeted
Change of DfE guidance
I’m hearing from people, who COULD work from home, being told by their boss that they MUST tell their child’s school that they are a critical worker
These employers are behaving irresponsibly in the face of the huge numbers of Covid cases.
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GreenEdPolicy retweeted
I'm delighted to say that my boys (both at Eton) are not being asked to go back to the dangers of a school environment. However, in my capacity as a lawmaker, I must advise all children to be in school as required by statute.
GreenEdPolicy retweeted
CMO advice MUST be published before schools resume (or are due to resume) #transparency #accountability #responsibility
GreenEdPolicy retweeted
If I’d closed bubbles based on children having symptoms most of the school would be closed now. Johnson is genuinely talking utter tripe. I don’t know any schools doing this. However the lack of testing is the real issue and that is an utter disaster.
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GreenEdPolicy retweeted
In less than 1 hour we've had thousands of signatures calling for a #FairGrade2020. Add yours now: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
GreenEdPolicy retweeted
Congratulations A level students of England on forcing a massive U-turn on the government. Righteous anger fully justified. Now the whole system must be reviewed.
GreenEdPolicy retweeted
WEMBLEY MATTER Guest post: Our borough has been hit hard by the racist and classist algorithm used by Ofqual to decide students' grades wembleymatters.blogspot.com/…
GreenEdPolicy retweeted
Full u-turn from this government. Again.
Victory for thousands of students and teachers and what @TheGreenParty have called for all week - but at a mental, emotional and very real cost to those students affected.
BREAKING: Government #Uturn means both A levels and GCSEs will be awarded based on teacher-assessed grades. Students will receive whichever is higher: CAGs or moderated grades. #alevels2020 #GCSE2020
GreenEdPolicy retweeted
Went to see Macbeth aged 8, loved the witch chants. Also Kaye Webb’s I like this poem, loads of great poems and I liked all the comments from other children about why they liked each poem.
GreenEdPolicy retweeted
We need a more equal, more resilient economy.
We can’t go back to business as usual. We need a #GreenNewDeal - creating hundreds of thousands of low carbon jobs to give people financial security while protecting the world they live in.
#BetterIsPossible
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