Class Charts parent & student view
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Raising awareness of the impact of technology in schools -including monitoring, surveillance, automation, AI, mental health, SEND & the datafication of children
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The UK education system has done a full swap: private schools now sell nurture, creativity and wellbeing , while many state academies have become exam factories with silent corridors and isolation rooms. The system meant to widen opportunity is now the harshest one. #UKEducation
This has rung so true for us this past week.
FWIW, my gut reaction to people with such opinions is that they fear children, they fear that children see right through them, they fear they can't manage and educate children using relationships, positive pedagogy and respect... So all they have is systematic control.
My Y7 boy got 5 points (🤷♂️) for attending every day of the first half-term (easy for him). But nothing for battling homework every week of the first half-term (a huge struggle for him). The more that schools automate & systemise themselves, the further they drift from the kids.
🧵(1) Recently, our team published a major study on prevalence, inequalities and outcomes of internal exclusion (IE, aka removal, seclusion, isolation), reigniting a longstanding debate about its use in schools. The (open access) paper is here: bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be…
That's the extraordinary thing: English statistics are through the roof because 'poor behaviour'. OK, so education behaviour policy in the last 5+ years has not been effective? Can't continue to say problems still due to covid, lags, the establishment-did-it all the time...
Remember when Gibb said England did so well based on international comparisons? Some of it exaggerated, some justified. Some celebrated Gibb for this, including causes (knowledge-rich, phonics). But things that are worse...no, can't compare that because England is exceptional.
Fascinating to compare countries. Often when you do, depending on whether people like or don't like what you are saying, people will say 'can't compare them!' or 'we should compare them'. I have been fascinated with exclusions and suspensions. Take England and the Netherlands.
Children will not have the words to say what is bothering them,or how they feel in a state of stress or a brain flooded with emotions & overwhelmed, it will usually show up through changes in their behaviour.They will show you before they tell you how they feel.🧠🌱
As UNESCO set out in the Salamanca Statement (1994), inclusion means “schools for all - institutions which include everybody, celebrate differences, support learning & respond to individual needs". That DOESN'T mean "when convenient". Great work by @ICARSBanRandS defining this!
While there are those across the UK twisting the meaning of inclusion, we’ve searched across social media, committees, written submissions — you name it, we searched it — and found no one else citing what it truly means. So we will. Some now frame inclusion around the comfort of…
'Persistent Disruptive Behaviour' is the leading cause of exclusions, but is applied to a range of low-level matters from uniform to toilet needs. Kids cannot have 'safe, calm, dignified classrooms' without fair, reasonable & proportionate uses of control. Time to look at PDB.
Exclusive: The government needs to define ‘persistent disruptive behaviour’ because pupils are being wrongly excluded under this vague ‘catch-all’ category, warn PRU and AP leaders tes.com/magazine/news/…
Placing the rights of one group above the rights of another group is never worth it. In education or society.
No matter how many days they might spend in The R Zone, every day and every lesson that pupils can spend in disruption free classrooms is worth it.
This, this & a thousand times THIS 👇🏼
Teens brains are still under construction, especially the prefrontal cortex. (thinking,planning, problem solving) The emotional centre is on overdrive(amygdala) Mood swings,shutting you down. It's not rebellion,its development.The brain is rewiring. Schools need to know this🧠🌱
Your kids spend 7 hours a day in a building designed like a prison, following bells, asking permission to speak, and learning to fear authority figures who aren't their parents. And you call homeschoolers "weird" for opting out of this system.
Thank you @tombennett71 I appreciate the response. What I would say to that is that behaviour and culture don’t float above material reality, they’re built on it. If you ignore that, you’re not being pragmatic. You’re just managing the fallout. You don’t get calm, dignified…
"The UK's position on children's wellbeing is 'dreadful'. Why is the data on this receiving so little media attention?" Brief open access piece on this here: educationuncovered.co.uk/analysis/morni… and here: substack.com/@warwickmansel…
New: “Not even Manchester United are this bad” High-profile peer savages UK record on pupil wellbeing: educationuncovered.co.uk/news/not-even-…
Rewards and behaviour charts might get short-term compliance, but they do not address the root causes from a well-being lens. This behaviour is often a pupils stress response. By knowing these root causes & triggers, we can better support our young people. 🧠🌱
Something every young person should know this A-level results day.
Interesting thing about that small study showing how neuromyths exist in ITE is that one of the myths that persists is extrinsic motivation. Extrinsinc Motivation is RIFE in TLAC and the cogsci cru who use behaviour points/merits to reward & punish constantly to aid learning.
Disappointing court ruling on use of isolation; the usual dehumanising & lazy narrative from @tombennett71 calling children ‘disruptive’ & their peers ‘victims’. And hiding behind ‘try it yourself’ is the last refuge of someone with no real answers, just spin & snake oil to sell.
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