Suitable Education

Attendance - Why children need support not shame. @educationgovuk @bphillipsonMP RewritingThe FairyTale fixed it for you! @teamsquarepeg @NotFineinSchool

Often one can see a government agenda being lined up in the headlines...presumably more 'knowledge rich' focus needed in EYFS so that children can pass their SATs 😢 Play and child led is an integral part of what is needed for little humans to develop. tes.com/magazine/news/early-…

Coronavirus lockdown weaponised to drive policy changes inc the Schools Bill. 🧵@karamballes Narratives about harm to children being out of school/ home with parents ramped up. Behind headlines evidence said children LESS stressed despite pandemic childrenscommissioner.gov.uk…

1/3 Govt are framing smacking as trusting parents. Some trust would be welcome, it's in short supply with this govt, their overstepping of threshold for coercive state intervention is worrying. Does NOT mean children should have less protection against being hit than other people

This is what children deserve. Stories. Being read to and talked with Not an endless stream of tests, basement test, phonics test, multiplication test, SATs. We know they are bad for children, it is bad faith to claim they are for their benefit @MichaelRosenYes @chrisriddell50

Want children to love reading? Heed the Rights of the Reader. Ditch things like reading logs which are counterproductive suitable-education.uk/making…

Cracking down via Ofsted inspections on schools where teachers engage in the "culture war" is another dystopian aim aired in the Education Select Committee oral sessions. MP Tom Hunt says govt to focus on this. @ExtinctionR @ukblm @CARE2Liberate @karamballes Extract below ⬇️

It is hard to monitor home ed because we are "permissive" as a country says @amanda_spielman "We do not have a national identity card requirement. People do not have to prove their right to exist every day or to access any service" The fight for home ed is about civil liberties