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Sam Strickland twitter.com/emma_turner75/…

I visited a park this weekend. There were signs in the car park saying don’t litter & pay for your parking before you leave. I think the owners of this park may hate people…..

Neurodivergence, SEND, trauma, additional needs…

Schools cannot have 1000+ different approaches.

Adjustments, yes.

Most of the children in these groups actually want structure, coherent systems & clear rules. They fail to cope without.

This weekend I’ve been to numerous public places & they all have signs with some form of instruction, ruling or protocol. Heaven forbid a school should ever do such a thing.

So it’s now possible to judge a school & its leaders from one picture & having never visited.

Working in challenging schools is hard work

Not many people want to do this. There isn’t a queue

Those that do actually take professional risk as if it goes wrong potentially it’s career over

Yet they face endless criticism from keyboard warriors

Madness

Sam frames the problem openly and well here:

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Sam Strickland It is much easier to make reasonable adjustments in a setting that has clear boundaries than to do so in chaos. Children get reasonable adjustments when things seem fair.

Unbelievably short sighted move from a government presiding over a chronic teacher recruitment crisis. theguardian.com/education/2024…

Working in challenging schools is hard work

Not many people want to do this. There isn’t a queue

Those that do actually take professional risk as if it goes wrong potentially it’s career over

Yet they face endless criticism from keyboard warriors

Madness

I find it intriguing that there’s outrage when a school/s display clear rules & expectations & transform themselves BUT no outrage when a school is chaotic, with horrendous behaviour

I find it intriguing that there’s outrage when a school/s display clear rules & expectations & transform themselves BUT no outrage when a school is chaotic, with horrendous behaviour

Neurodivergence, SEND, trauma, additional needs…

Schools cannot have 1000+ different approaches.

Adjustments, yes.

Most of the children in these groups actually want structure, coherent systems & clear rules. They fail to cope without.

Judging schools from the outside. Wrong, toxic, needs to stop. teacherhead.com/2020/09/19/jud…