If politicians were education experts, they would know that denying teenagers sleep impacts their ability to lay down memories.

How about school teaches ALL children bricklaying? Why not? Future bricklayers have to endure academic stuff they will never use.

Besides, the country has a serious shortage of bricklayers and no shortage of young adults with media studies degrees …

Jo Boaler rightly correcting the Maths Teaching ‘police’ from stopping children count on their fingers. Humans have done that forever!

Homework: is it worth the hassle? theguardian.com/teacher-networ…

George Monbiot brilliantly exposes deep flaws in the nature of schooling : monbiot.com/2017/02/16/fac…

Discipline problems: is it surprising when children, bursting with energy & excitement, are confined to the spot like battery chickens?

Government has no plan to tackle ‘worsening’ #teacher shortages. tes.com/news/school-ne…

Education Reform Saturday 25th Feb = National Day of Action by parents re FairFundAllSchools Watch us on social media #schoolsjustwannahavefunds

Toby Young on Radio 4 sees schools teaching latin as a good thing. Ever the elite favouring academia, never for hands-on skills.

@CondurJ Politicians are desperately too narrow in their views ever to be involved in sculpting the education system.

I wish we would follow Finland’s lead and adopt a cross-party agreement that defers to education experts.

@CondurJ Yes. Teachers also even more so. And so evidently unnecessary : teachers overloaded and childhood development stymied.

Am I correct in saying that streaming in schools tends to help the few at the expense of the many? Finland tends to avoid it.

#Tory proclamation that #Grammars will help the poor succeed is spin - a smokescreen for creating elite education streams.

FT in 2013 : “Net effect of #grammar schools is to disadvantage poor children and help the rich.” blogs.ft.com/ftdata/2013/01…

Tory party believe that school choice is the key to a good education. There was me thinking it was all down to the teaching.

Choice - this Tory obsession with choice - derives from market thinking. That want competition, not collaboration between schools.

The introduction of T levels sounds excellent to me. For technical education to gain some parity with academic, at long last.

Schools must reject budject cuts. They must send a clear message to government that you destroy what you cut too far.