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By our Education Correspondent. When summer ends, its time for inservices… another meeting, another PowerPoint. The senior management team stands at the front of the staff room, clicking through slides filled with “inspirational” Brene Brown quotes about daring to lead and leaning into vulnerability. It is hard to feel vulnerable when mid November, the leaking […]
“The news emerging today regarding the latest victory by Scotland’s largest and most formidable teaching union is a staggering testament to the power of collective action. It is a reminder of what happens when we refuse to be silenced and instead stand together as the singular, strongest voice for educators in Scotland. The headline is […]
By Josie Hervey According to “For Women” Scotland, schools “face a Sandie Peggie-style legal dispute” over single-sex spaces. If you wanted proof of their bad faith, look no further. Our children – all of them – need to be safe in schools. Pretending that only people assumed to have a penis can be guilty of […]
Since the last time I wrote about my Covid-19 experience for Ungagged my life here in Xiamen (on the south coast of China) has regained a degree of normality. Initially many people were saying things like “normal isn’t really very normal any more”, and the expectation was that the strictly enforced new rules were here […]