- Muse in Vivo

I get plenty of abuse from the “glass is half full” tendency. (Apparently the fact that I write about badly behaved kids mean I must be a bad teacher and hate all children.) But I don’t call them “idealistic”. It’s idealistic to fight to improve a bad system not to pretend it’s fine as it is.

Yours is probably the most realistic look into our educational system I’ve seen on the ‘net. Except mine, of course. I hope you don’t get the idealistic abuse we who know what it’s really like so often receive.

At the risk of sounding like an advert, the main reason I moved here was because it is very convenient for importing blog entries. There were some problems with importing (if you look at some of the older entries they need tidying up) but these resulted from the fact that my old host INFET vanished without trace so I had to import everything from another site. As a result the entries on here are something like third-hand copies of the originals.

Biggest curriculum change for 20 years … (page 4), new KS3 curriculum, diploma, new GCSE, primary strategy …

A League table for Gifted and talented.

The government caught in a cleft stick between admitting SAT tests don’t work, to wanting to appear tough on teachers and publishing league tables. (page 9)

A two page article extolling Individual tuition(page 14 and 15), which begs the question where is this going to take place in schools? What rooms? Who will teach it? Do the children want it? All these factors gleefully ignored in the article.

Pupils body heat to warm new buildings (what about using teachers as they try to implement all the above? “Run faster you useless feckers, i demand a 15% increase in heat related activity by the end of the new term”) (page 6)

Using jeremy Clarkson to inspire pupils (page 20)

And pupil being OFSTED inspectors watching teachers (page 3)

Ted Wragg used to be asked where he got his ideas from, he answered he just read the TES every day. I wonder what he’d have done with the above?

Its gone beyond irony.

Thank you for updating us on your whereabouts.

I am interested to know how you like the switch to Edublogs and whether or not you found the transfer agreeable. I take it you were able to move all of your blog posts with you. Was that automated, or did you have to do it manually?

Happy new Year!

Great to be back. Now I’ve just got to find out a way of letting everyone know I’m here.

(Except for the trolls, of course.)

Keep posting, and remember don’t feed the trolls.