If I could I would Bottle summer Make August days a special feature Distill the essence of long lazy lunches Evenings on beaches Give a supply to every teacher To help them through a long dark term A tiny light A seed A germ of hope. One tiny drop each day – or two The [...]
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Making the greyed
The Government had a hankering An urge to measure schools. “It’s too complex”, the teachers said, “There simply aren’t the tools.” Then, In a gloomy basement, One dark and dismal day A dull and dreary grey man Found A way to measure grey. MPs were delighted! At last, they’d got the thing To measure all [...]
Smashing the tables
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 [...]
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