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Month: February 2017

25thFebruary201725th June 2017
10

Labelling SEN Parents as ‘pushy’ is irresponsible and dangerous

SEND parents labelled as pushy parents

Both the Guardian and the TES have recently published articles that included the statistic that 57% of teachers believe that SEN in schools is being misdiagnosed. Even worse, the articles then went on to reveal that “nearly two-thirds (64%) thought that some parents who have a child with a learning issue that could be addressed… Read More

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13thFebruary201713th February 2017
7

For the cool girls

Old school photograph

Twenty years have passed – a brief eternity. At school, I turned my tie around and used the skinny side, because you did. I begged my mother for Kickers, because you wore them. The passions and pulses of our teenage hearts were similar then, though I would not have believed it; I thought you were… Read More

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5thFebruary20176th February 2017
39

I am not a teacher

Me, Biggest and Littlest on a day out at Croome. I am not a teacher

Last night, I slept soundly. I was not up late into the night, marking essays, setting three different types of targets. I did not toss and turn, fretting about the parent I should have phoned, the spreadsheets I should have filled in. I had no meetings to go over, no deadlines coming up. There are… Read More

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I am Danielle and I am an ex-English teacher living on the border between Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. I have two children, a boy, 9, who is on the autistic spectrum, and a daughter, 7… read more

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