LOL – That’s like saying “Drinking large amounts of cider does not positively affect levels of acheivment in a school, nor does it adversely affect it, therefore we should give out cider before every lesson”.
Most peoples idea of education (or at least most parents) is that it improves, i.e “positively affects levels of achivment”, otherwise whats the point ?

Fu**in hell, do you always react like that? Camomille, anyone?

What’s the need to start spraying insults like that…?

As for your rant @65, I mean you can think whatever you want about people at LC, your opinion, but if that’s really what you think, then I feel for you if you have to waste your Friday evening on a website you despise so much and that can make you so angry. Cheerio.

I’m dying to hear about what you’ve done with your life, how you’ve contributed to society, while I’ve been “sitting around in my smug little circle”. Or, as it’s otherwise known, working in rural Tanzania, promoting the sharing of good teaching practice in the vocational school I helped set up in my friend’s community, and leading health workshops with local peer educators. And now I’m back home, doing lots of research into girls’ education in Africa in order to help raise the achievement of not only our sponsored students, but also to raise the standard of teaching across all local schools from the primary level and up, while I wait for my new CRB checks so I can get back into work.

That’ll be me being a predictable one-trick pony, then.

If you read the comments here, you’ll see many of us are teachers, or have spoken with teachers about this issue, and have something useful to add to the debate – and you’ll find mostly the same sorts of comments and the same general level of agreement among the entire teaching population.

So please do tell me what you think of the current policy of inclusion in schools in England and Wales.

Oh I’m sure it is…one place where it really comes into its own is in an account of DHG’s existence. An otherwise prosaic and squalid little tale benefits hugely from a little embellishment, exaggeration and outright fabrication. Not only does he dissemble ‘manfully’ in his efforts to disguise his lack of conventional teaching experience, he goes on to assume a brief acquaintance with regular teaching entitles him to cast judgement over the abilities and attitudes of others. Delusional?

#I’m in an idiot liberal posse!#

Hang on. Are you one of the loyal idiots who cheerleads the magnificent Sunny H’s every gnomic reference, takes a default “strongly agree” on all issues which promote diversity and ‘equality’ regardless of their divisive and reactionary consequences and regards all “PC gone mad” stories as Daily Mail propaganda with no objective basis? If you answered yes to all of these then you are indeed in the posse. Send a SAE and Sheriff Sunny will send you a Deputy’s badge.

#Finally, all of my dreams have been realised.#

Surely not? What about the one where you can be taken seriously as a politically minded blogger without having to preach solely to the converted?

Woo!

I’m in an idiot liberal posse!

Finally, all of my dreams have been realised.

We are, for all our idiotic flaws, a really awesome posse to have at parties. We even have our own Liberal Conspiracy Playa’s Anthem:

“You get for drinks for free,
When you ride with LC.
You only sip weak tea
If you don’t ride with LC”.*

And yes, Daniel’s still invited.

*I am, of course, lying through my teeth; there is no LC Playa’s anthem. So we’re an ‘idiotic, occasionally deceitful liberal posse’. Still, the ‘fun at parties’ thing was true.

I’m in an idiot liberal posse!

Finally, all of my dreams have been realised.

(Also, make-believe is one of the very best things life has to offer. And the classroom is a very boring place without it.)

I’ve closed the option for anyone to view it now so really that link should be dead.

I hope it didn’t freak you out.
You might want Sunny to also pull my message 51. I’ll ask him.

Sunny,
Could you please pull my message 51 as it’s invaisive?

Thanks

Kojak

No I’m not, I just have specific learning difficulties.

Kojak:

Thanks to your bit of Googling I’ve realised that there is no need for it to be public so I’ve made it private. Thanks for flagging it duck!

I didn’t read it closely enough to pick up on that.

It sounds like congratulations are in order.

I’ll add to the list – but something different instead.

All the best

Are you a polygamist, Daniel?