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What's a duck got to do with sprouts?

Does he double as Resurrectionist Helm?

* Their loved** ones, obviously.

They died so that #Wülferhampton can have unwanted sprouts for Yuletide.

** For a given value of "loved".

"...no more toxic than usual"?

Please send my condolences to the brave tester.

...but one that took a lot of time, effort, and resources to put in the prep work to make those lessons happen, all the things which have always been in very short supply in state schools. And the problems have only deteriorated in the 10 years I've been out of the classroom.

...own ability to be successful within that environment. Within my lessons though, they went from doing virtually nothing to actually making some small headway. Still not enough, but much more than they would otherwise have done. A genuine change of momentum.

A relatively simple little change...

...of not knowing what they were supposed to be doing. That let me focus my energies on nipping issues in the bud before the behaviour got out of hand. The change after a few weeks was immeasurable.

Sadly, by the time they got to me, they were pretty disillusioned with school in general & their...

I once had a really tough Y10 class, small group but always kicking off about something making them impossible to teach en masse. The best you could hope for was to manage the room.

I started printing off a sheet of lesson tasks and timings for each individual so that they never had the excuse...

He likes the policy prospectus, but doesn't really buy into any of the motivating rationale. Much like Johnson, he'll just say whatever he thinks will be most useful to him in that moment.

Indeed, but more by instinct than either by design or by ideology.

I find it difficult to link this description of Trumpism to Trump himself. I can believe that a number of the people behind the scenes (Miller etc.) would think that but Trump himself is far too limited and self-absorbed to do even this level of out-of-arse "research".

Pretty sure any normal bloke would take one look at the bin and decide that there's plenty more rubbish that can fit off you just squeeze it down. Anything but actually take it out... 🙄

I don't think we do ourselves or or society any favours by staying out of it when the intent to roll back all sorts of civil rights for all genders of clear. My wording was ill judged but the intent was to support trans women in their choice, not to disregard anyone else.

Fair. That said, I find it difficult to comprehend why something that has been ongoing for decades with little or no comment is only suddenly a problem now. I look across the Atlantic, from where much of the thinking and campaign funding is deriving and I see a concerted political campaign.

All the more reason to allow sanity to prevail and let people self-sort rather than getting worked up about whether or not the woman in the next cubicle has a penis.

Because in reality, a third option is far from universal and then, mostly reserved for disabled people.

A perfectly able-bodied person being compelled to use the third option is pretty close to being compelled to out themselves as trans every time they get caught short in a public place.