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RMT Garden Party for Cuba
⏲️Wednesday 12 June, 6:30-10.30pm
📌Maritime House, Old Town, Clapham, SW4 0JW
🪇 live music from Omar Puente & Raises Cubanas
💬Mick Lynch & Ismara M. Vargas Walter
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Students all over Sweden are today joining the global student uprisings and are now occupying universities in Sweden, against the genocide in Palestine, for a permanent ceasefire and an end to the occupation. 🧵1/5

This is a condemnation of the stewardship of our schools by Gillian Keegan MP and this Govt.

Stop the sad boosterism comparing Ofsted jugements in 2010 - on a different basis - with those judgements now

Instead get on with putting right the crisis you have caused

#SaveOurSchools

Well done to FFT Education Datalab for their work identifying managed moves which are back on the rise after the pandemic.

ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2024/05/invest…

Worth listening to this; especially if you are one of the thousands of #FriendsOfSangita

Disappeared journalists are worth singing about, even if they can't be spoken about. Here's our 🎶version of Debbie Harry/BLONDIE's #Maria for Sangita Myska.
Happy to sort corrections - need info 🤔: @lbc James O'Brien

#WhereisSangitaMyska
Mehdi Hasan David Noble 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @frances_coppola

We have had multiple frameworks, that have gone through multiple updates since 2010.

This is like comparing GCSE results to O level results. The comparisons are impossible when the measures are so different.

What is true though is only 15% of teachers believe Ofsted provide a…

Wow! The cheek of Gillian Keegan!
The Govt has run down school & SEND funding;
Teacher shortages & class sizes are at record levels.
This is all objective whilst Ofsted grades are subjective and changeable.
Yes, teachers & children work hard - but this is no thanks to the Tories

David Lammy claims Nelson Mandela would not have agreed with student protests about Gaza. But Mandela said “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.'

This is shameful.

Last year the Prime Minister paid tax at the same rate as a teacher. Millions lost to the tax payer through dodgy PPE deals.

There is no moral justification to use pupils data in this way.

Last month Kier Starmer asked Diane how he could help her (in the midst of the racist Tory donor Frank Hester scandal). She said “re admit me”.
But Diane is still out, when Elphicke is in…
I want to vote for Diane Abbott MP at the GE.

Wow - this is a scandal,
The Govt is using pupil data collected by schools to check on benefit fraud - like it once used it on immigration status.
All undermining parental trust in schools, and all without parental or child permissions. Surveillance state. Follow Defend Digital Me

“Over the past decade, declines in adolescent mental health have become a great concern
The prevalence of socio-emotional disorders has increased in the adolescent age range leading to mounting pressures on child and adolescent mental health services”

Help is desperately needed for the Children of Gaza and the people of Rafah who are being moved to what are essentially internment camps of human neglect and suffering. Die in the desert or in your home. That is the choice given to Palestinians today. unicef.org/press-releases…

Next week, children will sit down to do a grammar exam that was never justified for any reason other than that because 'grammar has right/wrong answers' (untrue) it would be a good way to assess teachers. What an extraordinary way to justify what children should learn.
(Bew 2011)

This was brutal

When you see the sheer scale of the murder of civilians in #Gaza , the mass destruction of homes, infrastructure, public services, centres of learning, religious and cultural buildings and symbols, I'm sorry, but it's now impossible to see this as anything other than #genocide .

Palestinians were told to go to Rafah to be safe.

The other night, the Israeli bombardment of Rafah killed 22, including 8 children.

Now Palestinians are being told to leave Rafah and go to al Mawasi 'humanitarian area,' an area already heavily populated, because that 'is…

Huge congratulations to Sadiq Khan on a historic third term.

The children of London will have a hot, nutritious meal at lunch time for four more years!

So looks like Sadiq Khan has won a third term.

Really should be no surprise:
- Called for ceasefire
- Introduced Free School Meals for all primary kids
- Runs London Transport: almost the only part of Britain that isn’t broken.