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Oliver Mills

8 months

If you support terrorist groups, or if you support others in their support of terrorist groups, I have absolutely no interest in interacting with you about anything.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

3 months

Remember during lockdown when we couldn't have exams so schools got to decide what grades their pupils got and every private school in the country just went, "Fuck it. A's for everyone then."

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

I left teaching for two reasons. 1) I couldn't handle behaviour. I have no shame in admitting it. 2) I worked for a HT who, in my opinion, wasn't cut out for the job and made my life hell in the process.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

People who say parenting doesn't get easier are lying. I've got a 6 and 4 yo and compared to when they were 2 and 0 this is a piece of piss.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

1 month

Adult at a meeting: oh I've forgotten my pen, do you mind if I borrow one of yours? Other adult: Sure, no problem. *Adult at a meeting dissembles the pen and loses the spring* Adult at a meeting: can I borrow another pen? Other adult: No, you cannot.

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Adult at a meeting: oh I've forgotten my pen, do you mind if I borrow one of yours? Other adult: Sure, no problem. Children are human and make mistakes. Adults are human and make mistakes. Forgetting a pen is so low down on the priority list. Just give them a pen.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

It's not the "kind" thing to say but mainstream education is not the right place for a lot of children.

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 months

Children excluded in primary school 'less likely to pass GCSEs' Read more🔗

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

1 month

@oldandrewuk Behaviour is atrocious. Teachers, school leaders and other educationalists typically show high tolerance for disruptive and disrespectful behaviour. If people could be a fly on the wall in a random classroom for about 10 minutes, they would likely be appalled at what they see.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

16 days

Can we all now admit there is a behaviour crisis?

Tim Taylor #MantleoftheExpert #TryThis...

@imagineinquiry

16 days

Can we all now at least admit there is a suspensions and exclusions crisis?

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

3 months

Also great to see that the site continues to develop. These posters were designed by our excellent principal of disruption and liberation, Dr Westinghouse-Hallam, and are in every classroom - and now on the corridors to reinforce our message and ethos.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

I once got told off for writing something like "This is absolutely brilliant" on a child's work because I wasn't 'moving the learning forward' 🙃

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

3 months

Hello teacher, I've seen your thread about the realities of your classroom. Allow me, a non-teacher, to counter it with one of my own relying solely on analogies and hypotheticals. #IAmVeryNice

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

27 days

People who are qualified teachers but are now not working in schools, what would need to happen for you to go back? Rank them in order if possible.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

3 months

From Facebook.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

27 days

I think I will go back regardless but the things preventing me from doing so are: 1) Pupil behaviour is terrible and schools can't really do much about it due to a lack of external support. 2) The neverending to-do-list and 'always on' aspect of the job really stresses me out.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

I'm planning to go back in September and am actively looking for jobs. I don't want a school where behaviour is perfect, I want one where it's taken seriously and there is a clear positively-framed behaviour policy that also has sanctions and that all staff follow consistently.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

27 days

I think that teachers deserve a pay rise but that's not a dealbreaker for me. The pension is still excellent. Poor behaviour is #1 by far. I want to teach. I want to spend most of my working time outside of teaching lessons on planning and preparing for the next ones.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

@novelideasblog Onjali Rauf

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

7 months

This is one of the stupidest arguments on this site.

Metro

@MetroUK

7 months

In a rather confusing turn of events, a GB News presenter has been caught blocking people who have criticsed him — and some who haven't interacted with him at all Andrew Doyle is a defender of free speech, and hosts a weekly show: 'Free Speech Nation'

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

5 months

@Copa90 @welloffside

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

The solution is to build more specialist schools with specialised staff and high staff:pupil rates rather then expecting them to fit into the mainstream model of education where one teacher is expected to be in a class with 30 children and MAY have a teaching assistant with them.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

If I win the Euro millions I'd give a few mill to Naomi Fisher to start her own school so we can see if her ideas would work at scale.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

27 days

3) Workload. That combined with the 'always on' element of many (most) teaching jobs really puts me off. Before I had kids, I could handle it but I'm not doing 60+ hour weeks anymore or being contactable outside of say 7am-6pm unless it's an emergency.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

5 months

ResearchEd has done more to improve classroom practice and outcomes for children since it started than every university's education department combined.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

7 months

@RogersHistory @Timw1983Wright @tombennett71 When a student forgets their phone I just reach into my drawer of infinite phones and give them one of mine.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

3 months

Every time I see a rule from now on I'm going to think of one hypothetical person it couldn't apply to and then get really cross and abusive towards the people who've created it and who need to apply it and start rambling a load of old shit about laws I don't understand.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

1 month

Seeing as we're probably going to have a Labour government tomorrow can I just say that I have always been a massive fan of group work and my favourite approach to curriculum is when the children get to choose the topics they study.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

5 months

@rivkahbrown I wouldn't be too frivolous on this holiday if I were you as I've got a feeling you might have some significant expenses to manage in the near future. Bon voyage. 👍🏻

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

3 months

Saw this idea on here and thought I'd have a go myself.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

I am now in Cumbria. 3 quick thoughts. 1) It is very pretty. 2) It has a shit load of pubs. 3) Cumbria water from the tap tastes better than Essex water even after it's been filtered.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

5 months

@PatriciaOLynn @tombennett71 I would LOVE to see your evidence that a school excluded a child because of the actions of a sibling.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

When you have a kid like the one in the article referred to as having ADHD and being "angry" kicking off in your class, no one is benefitting from that situation . You can't teach. The other classmates are scared and not learning. And the kid being angry isn't learning either.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

1 year

These won't be much help though if the school has a culture, systems and policies that cause a high workload. No amount of "work smarter, not harder" advice is going to help if even your most efficient teacher is drowning under 60+ hour weeks.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

@SkyNews Have they got any research about bears or Popes?

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

3 months

@MineEYMind @petergates3 @Mr_Minchin @educationgovuk I find it truly disturbing that you're weaponising suicide like this. You're also talking horseshit but putting that aside, blaming people for child suicide is a really scummy thing to do and is discouraged by charities like The Samaritans. You need help, seriously.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

3 months

I can 100% guarantee that this kid was violent. The school has a responsibility to keep all of the children in its care safe.

Dominic Gunn

@EdTangled

3 months

🚨Permanent Exclusion of 5 yr old🚨 When a school excludes an infant for non-compliance with their Behaviour Policy, because she was unable to self-regulate, because she has not successfully been taught to self-regulate by that school…no words😶

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

This is a superb question.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

3 months

100%. There was a show called Football Italia on Channel 4 and every man I know who is now between the age of 35-45 and who liked football as a kid grew up watching it.

Paul Macdonald

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3 years

There's a deep love for Serie A among a certain generation in the UK, much more than La Liga or indeed any other league. It's because it was on TV every week. Some people can't grasp this.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

Or expecting mainstream school staff to go above and beyond to accommodate children with significant behaviour problems when they don't have the expertise or manpower to do so.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

But two in a class and it becomes really difficult, three incredibly difficult and four or more and it's near impossible to even come close to meeting the needs of your class and ensuring they're all able to learn and feel safe.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

6 months

I don't use my real name on here as I don't want this account to be linked to me professionally because I hold some controversial views that are unfashionable for teachers to have. Things like: Biological sex is real and immutable and Antisemitism is bad

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

6 months

I've been shouting it into the void on here for the past 5 years or so but are some of you coming round to the ideas that a) lots of "antiracists" are in fact incredibly racist and horrible people in general. b) teaching has a problem with antisemitism that just gets ignored ?

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

5 months

@jeremycorbyn For those wondering what Farage said.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

PRUs get wrongly portrayed as heartless dumping grounds when they're not. They're places where children receive specialist, tailored provision from experts and where they can learn and develop skills in a way that they couldn't in a 'one teacher + 30 pupils' mainstream setting.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

We have a crisis of behaviour and SEND provision in this country and while they're often linked, they're not the same thing.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

2 months

@cathydevine56 If they can do it for their cause, why can't other people do it for their own? It's a protected and almost sacred site but if they can vandalise it, albeit with something that should wash off, then anyone can.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

3 months

I thank my doctor for pointing out matter-of-factly the harms of obesity while I was still young enough to do something about it.

Professor Karol Sikora

@ProfKarolSikora

3 months

So much preventable disease could be solved if people ate a bit better, and moved a bit more. We're obsessed with talking about our country's abysmal health, yet ignore the most obvious cause. The UK is plagued by obesity and inactivity - they are both brutal killers.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

5 months

@AnnaFazack1 It's a really poor article though. I'd be interested to see what prompted it. Did he contact you? Also, why didn't you fact-check anything? E.g. The dig at Tom Bennett not having worked in tough schools is clearly untrue; he has written a lot about his past experience.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

They got up at 6:15 and took themselves downstairs. I've spent the last half hour laying on the sofa listening to a podcast while they're drinking hot chocolate and watching Thomas the Tank.

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

@alexrubner 15 minutes later...

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Oliver Mills

@OliverRMills

4 months

Special schools do a wonderful job. Whenever I see people asking about the quality of our local special schools on Facebook groups, the feedback from parents whose children attend these schools is overwhelmingly positive. The trouble is, we don't have enough of them.

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