Without a doubt, the situation in our schools has gotten really bad. Teachers are leaving the profession en masse, as they battle impossible workloads, toxic work environments, a ‘broken’ Special Educational Needs System, and surges in pupil brutality. Earlier this year, the Teachers’ Union estimated there were 30,000 violent incidents involving a student attacking aContinue reading “Punch-ups Before Lessons”
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Stand By Me
‘Tomorrow’s going to be a rough day. Stand by me.’ These were among the last words 14-year-old schoolgirl Mia Janin said to her friend in a WhatsApp voice note in the early hours of March 12, 2021. Mia never saw tomorrow. At 6:50 in the morning, her parents discovered her lifeless body at their BarnetContinue reading “Stand By Me”