This is the last year I mark for an exam board. The pay is pathetic and simply nowhere near worth the time or the effort. And the CPD argument is just another falsehood. Exam boards receive plenty of £ for their services, pay markers better.

Another interesting new piece of research strongly confirming the value of collaborative talk in English classrooms. bristol.ac.uk/news/2022/may/…

Reverse racism does NOT exist. Every time a White person calls a Black person a racist they're projecting a false equivalence of oppression/inequality/injustice that does NOT exist. A LIE

Black people are NOT systemically racist to White people

Sit your arse down & get EDUCATED

There are some great books on critical and culturally sustaining language pedagogies. Here's some I just pulled off my shelf and are well-worth looking at for those interested in resisting oppressive ideologies about perceived language absences and gaps.

After spending so many hours marking for a certain exam board on top of working full time and therefore feeling absolutely burnt out, I am so unbelievably furious that I’ve not been paid and feel totally taken for granted. What a joke.

New play from Linda Wilkinson one of the founding members of the Working Class Collective! Ghosts on a Wire! A play about love, light and power. Get tickets here: uniontheatre.biz/show/ghosts-on…

Hundreds of thousands of people living in cheap hotels everywhere its expensive for all of us & miserable for those forced into them. Theres a simple solution Council Housing Now
'Family trapped living in Travelodge for four months - Leicestershire Live' leicestermercury.co.uk/news/uk-world-…

BREAKING: Liz Truss has expressed deep concern that a 'disproportionate number' of women have been imprisoned for non-payment of the TV licence.

Zero women have been imprisoned for non-payment of the TV licence x

Jennifer Webb DanC Thanks both. And here's the full research article too: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Both of these voted against equal rights for gay people (and the right to marriage) yet here they are celebrating a team that contains 7 members of the LGBTQ community

Freeloading hypocrites

The problem: 40,000 nursing vacancies

Liz Truss' solution: Cut nurses pay.

Just been told that Team Leaders won’t be getting any more pay until the end of August. So, results will be known by then, but we won’t have been paid. We always got it before the holidays.
Great job AQA.
I’m an experienced TL for many years but that’s it for me, I’m done.

Ambridge famalam come through! 🌳🐄🚜🐕 Edinburgh-based or Edinburgh-visiting Tweetalongers assemble! The Archers #TheArchers

BT made £1.3bn in profit last year, gave CEO £3.5m (32% increase) and shareholders £750m.

Meanwhile engineers and call centre staff struggling with a cost of living crisis and relying on food banks suffer a real-terms pay cut. Solidarity with The CWU members demanding better.

This is for my Great Grandma, who was banned from playing football 3 years after this picture was taken.
Tears. Tears of joy. Our #Lionesses
#ENGGER

BREAKING: The Tory leadership candidates explain they want to ban strikes because the free market should only be free for corporations and bosses. The free market is not actually for poor people like you! Get back to work and be grateful for your poverty wages, you plebs x

If you're inconvenienced by the RMT strike please read this letter written by my daughter about the time a train guard made all the difference in the world to her.