Maybe it’s time for us parents to do what the teachers aren’t able And tell DfE civil servants where to stick their stupid league table. The numbers of kids in a year group are too small to draw safe conclusions. So trying to rank their results this way is only causing confusion. If numbers don’t [...]
Category: Thoughts
Long ago
I found some newspaper headlines from ever so far back in time When kids came to school If they came at all Tired and covered in grime. Where your chances of life were decided Mostly by family wealth And the poorest of poor had the worst schools Few hopes, Greater cares, Poorer health. When the [...]
Butterfly Dads – draft one
I was unsure how to do this ‘Dad’ thing. What was my role? Holding a hand? Pushing a swing? Yet, there you were, this new unit: Madonna and Child. And where did I fit? So, I looked around and found, in my past And on screens, I’d seen: Hold fast and stay Love finds a [...]
Passing waves
does the sea mourn the wave that crashes to the shore?
Funny old thing
It's a funny old thing, to be a mother To put your heart in the hands of another Without condition. Beyond and above The surest form of human love, Except, perhaps, for the love received From the tiny child that was conceived. Maybe it's their love, at the start, That truly binds us, heart to [...]
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