Tag: education
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60km 60days
❤️💥We did it! Skating 60km in (a lot less than) 60 days! My legs are absolutely exhausted and I’m done with skating (for a while at least lol) but my heart is full of pride and gratitude! Big up bubs who skated his heart out and clocked up the KMs and thank you to every […]
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Probably Autistic
I’ve had to say that phrase quite a lot over the past couple of years. Whilst my son attended nursery school the possibility was raised that he may be on the Autistic Spectrum. He had advanced verbal skills but other traits suggested that he may have ASD. As time progressed it became more evident that […]
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Playing the race card
In a recent interview the “Head of Britain’s ‘strictest school” claimed that black children were using the ‘race card’ when in trouble. The rhetoric is that of an aging, white, conservative male trying to dismiss the divisive legacy of the British empire but the words belong to a youngish “women of colour” (pictured above). I wonder […]
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Was there ever a time before Scapegoat Britain? Part 1
At first it seemed ridiculous to believe that people would believe that all of England’s problems were the result of the EU and of course those “terrible immigrants”. We laughed about it in the staff room. The same staff room where for the past year, disgruntled colleagues have viciously blamed and attacked the Head […]
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That time I almost burst into tears on the treadmill..
Music pumping in my ears, feet pounding away on the cross trainer, I gaze up from the flashing dashboard to the row of televisions hanging from the gym ceiling. Ivory poachers in Gabon, a posh gardener in a tight squeeze, the usual random something or nothing on London Live all bid to grab my attention with […]