James McEnaney
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When I left my college job last year to join
@heraldscotland
I promised I would shine a light on the state of the sector.
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Nobody who would do this should be working in education. The end.
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If seatbelts were invented today half of Britain's papers would be calling them woke and blaming trans people.
"I don't think anyone has saved as many lives as him."
How Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin invented the seat belt 🚘
🎧
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My wife asked my son if he wanted to draw another picture to stick on the window...
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Fucking IMAGINE being a Modern Studies teacher right now. There's just too much Modern for the available Studies time.
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One rule for violent men in football shirts and another for women protesting the alleged murder of a woman by a police officer. Got it.
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For
#Christmas
this year my wee boy - who is 5, and an absolute star - asked for a "Fairy House". Not an iPad or PS4 games or anything like that. A Fairy House.
What is a Fairy House, you ask?
Well, exactly.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer wants to be free to decide that my wife's life isn't worth as much as someone else's. There are several possible reasons for this position, but the simplest one is that she is actually just a bad person.
Just 377 healthy people under 60 have died of Covid. That's not a typo. There are no zeros missing. 377. Yes, that's sad but we have locked down an entire country for a virus that mostly kills the very old & the very sick. The rest of us should be free to decide our own risks.
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@acuthberto
Hi, we don't charge extra to travel at peak times, but we do offer a discount to travel at quieter times. ^Paul
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I've just told me mum that more than 100,000 people have seen this and everyone thinks shes amazing, which she is. Here is the wonderful Gran McEnaney:
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Good thing we don't let under-25s get tattoos, vote, have kids, join the military, live on their own etc. because that would be a disaster. Their brains haven't even matured!
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Imagine being a fully grown adult and writing something as pathetic and embarrassing as those two sentences.
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This is from an Education Scotland job advert and I've been laughing at it for a solid 5 mins
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I'm a Celtic fan, but it is utterly indefensible for the squad to swan off to Dubai in the middle of a global pandemic. The rest of us are told to stay at home while they soak up the sun by the pool. Who the hell do they think they are?
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Wheeling around a hologram in a fucking golden carriage. This country is ridiculous and the sooner it falls apart the better off we'll be.
A hologram of The Queen from the day of her coronation has been displayed inside the Gold State Coach as part of the
#PlatinumJubilee
pageant.
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview and Youtube
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That's a nice meaningful vote you've got there. Would be a shame if someone invoked a 400 year old parliamentary convention and ruined it.
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Congratulations to every single pupil, and every single teacher, whose outrage forced the SNP government into an absolutely spectacular U-turn.
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I'm reading the SQA methodology document now. You know how lots of us thought this was going to be really bad? I actually think it might be worse.
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As soon as he saw it this morning he burst into a huge smile and beamed: "It's *exactly* what I wanted!"
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Parents in Scotland overwhelmingly support LGBT-inclusive education in schools, according to newly released survey data.
Get the full story here 👇
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Hello to all the people looking admiring towards Glasgow after the Kenmure Street protests. People Make Glasgow etc.
Also, you might want to look away for the next 24 hours.
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Re: those saying the SNP *only* brought forward a ceasefire motion to embarrass Labour.
I find myself wondering how many would say it in front of Humza Yousaf and his family...
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There's never enough money to feed kids but there's always enough money to bomb them.
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We're sending young kids into primary schools with no Covid protections. We're planning to grind kids through a national exam diet that is guaranteed to be unfair. We've not bothered making classrooms safe after 2 YEARS of a pandemic.
But education is the top priority, right?
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Bloody hell this is outrageous. What are the people at the SQA thinking?
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@RogersHistory
So the half that actually need to go to the toilet need to suffer because of what is, ultimately, a behaviour management failing?
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Imagine having all that money and all that clout and knowing that sooooooooo many people have read and loved your work and STILL behaving like some of the most pathetic social media trolls you've ever come across.
Truly mind-blowing to me.
JK Rowling in ‘arrest me’ challenge over hate crime law
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Unless you're a woman seeking an abortion in which case the DUP will insist on different rules to the rest of the UK
Northern Ireland's DUP says will not accept different rules to rest of UK
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I drove from Glasgow to Inverness on the A9 today and aside from the obvious fact that I hate driving I just cannot overemphasise how badly that whole road needs turned into a dual carriageway.
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Why is
@unisonscot
retweeting an an anonymous anti-trans Twitter account called Males In Disguise?
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And as if this wasn't all heart-warming enough already, it turns out that some of the things in it were in my mum's dolls' house when she was a kid.
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So to clarify:
Men have behaved terribly in Scottish politics for years.
Everyone knew about it.
The woman currently in charge must be held responsible for this.
Riiiiiiiight.
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Private schools exist to push mediocre rich kids ahead of poor kids. That's the product they sell. It's how they justify charging 5-figure fees.
It's about letting wealthy people buy their children a 20m head start in a 100m race then pretending they really deserved to win.
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And there's the smoking gun. There is surely no version of this that doesn't involve resignations.
Here it is.
Poorest pupils Higher pass rate reduced by 15.2% between teacher estimate and statistical moderation.
Richest pupils rate reduced by just 6.9%.
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When politicians claim that closing schools for a couple of days before Christmas to limit the spread of a virus will do terrible damage to kids remember they're closing schools for a day in June because the Queen has been kicking about for a long time.
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2 women make serious allegations. The response is a glowing, 3-tweet thread about Salmond's achievements and, at the end, a dismissal of the women involved ("destroyed by a couple of lurid front pages").
We can't apologise enough to women for this stuff.
Before Alex Salmond is cast into oblivion, it's worth remembering what he achieved. When he took over as leader of the SNP in 1990 it was a marginal force. He reshaped the movement and put his considerable weight behind the campaign for a Scottish parliament - and delivered.
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Loads of people will have logged on to Glow/Teams/Google Classroom to find work for their kids this morning.
One wee thing: if you expect it there are at 9am on a Monday when do you think the teachers were creating and uploading it?
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If you think teachers' jobs are so easy, and they are paid too much, and they get too many holidays, then there's an obvious move for you: become a teacher. You could be on a teaching course by August and in your own classroom a year later.
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Fascists getting called fascists by the First Minister and transphobes losing a court case. Not a bad day really.
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That middle paragraph is the key one so far. Basically a school's past results (without a pandemic) are determining the results this year. But we KNOW that grades are distributed by wealth, not ability, so while this might look fair it categorically is not.
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Just saw a kid with a sign saying "Respect existence or expect resistance" and wherever it came from that it is a bloody brilliant slogan
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It occurs to me that when John Swinney says this year's results had to be "fair to everyone" what he really means it "it would have been unfair on the rich and middle class kids if the poor kids had been allowed to do as well as them."
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The wee man is currently on Skype with my sister and brother-in-law (who live in America) telling them all about how wonderful his Fairy House is.
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@unisonscot
You can't possibly expect me to buy that? How do you retweet an anti-trans account like this as a "genuine mistake"?
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Neither report has been published and he called for Sturgeon to resign before she had even given evidence. The idea that Douglas Ross represents any sort of principled position is utterly laughable - this is just desperate and grubby manoeuvres from a weak party leader.
Nicola Sturgeon promised to ‘respect the decisions’ of both inquiries that report this week.
But the evidence against her is already overwhelming.
Only Alex Salmond acted worse as First Minister.
So I say directly to
@NicolaSturgeon
– go now, before you do any more damage.
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My wee boy is 5 and has been struggling with the lockdown thing and missing his teacher, so right now she's doing a video call with him to make him feel better and let him tell her all about what he's been doing.
Teachers are brilliant.
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First national teacher strikes in 40 years happening under the watch of a First Minister who said education was the top priority and she wanted to be judged on this. The gap between rhetoric and reality, unfortunately, is a chasm.
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Thanks for the response Julia but I'm fairly happy with my initial interpretation: that you are simply a bad person.
I am willing to concede that you're *also* a shameless grifter, if it helps?
These people are either totally disingenuous or wilfully stupid. It's hard to decide which sometimes. This one may be both.
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Some detail on the construction.
She painted it all (because it had been sitting in her loft for 20 + years) but then decided that made it look too 'normal' and unfairyish - so she redid it all and mottled the paint.
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And then ask yourself what factors might have helped bring an end to relentless, horrific warfare between European states?
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She even made a point of finding wee boy fairies to go in the garden.
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Surely this pledge could have been made at the start of the pandemic rather than the start of an election campaign?
🗳 👩💻 If
@theSNP
is re-elected in May, we will make sure every school pupil from P1 to S6 gets a laptop, Chromebook or tablet. In the digital age this should be as automatic as being given jotters and pencils was in years gone by.
#BothVotesSNP
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Can't wait to see the UK Govt take the Scottish Govt to court to...*checks notes*...make sure that children don't get any more rights.
Another constitutional ding dong on the way - Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has written to John Swinney to complain that the Scottish Government's adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is 'outwith the competence of the Scottish Parliament'
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I see Scottish Labour, which controlled the first 2 Scottish parliaments through coalition deals, is now outraged by coalition deals.
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The inside is carpeted with green felt to match the garden - she even carpeted the bloody stairs (somehow).
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Calling off their march because they've been told they can't go past a Catholic Church makes the ultimate motivation for these events pretty bloody clear.
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Personally I think if unionists want to stop a referendum then either the Tories, Labour or Lib Dems need to get an outright, single-party majority...
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A 99-year old man raising money for an under-funded health service during a deadly pandemic is not, by any stretch of the imagination, 'Britain at its best'. As you were.
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My DM inbox is an absolute horror show right now. Students who got As in prelims getting Cs. Some teachers seeing nearly whole classes downgraded - others seeing grades being inflated beyond what they think is fair. And we're just getting started.......
Good morning to teachers, parents and especially pupils on
#SQAResults
Obviously this year is like no other. If you have thoughts on how results have been determined this year my DMs are open and my email is in my bio.
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A couple of weeks ago we learned that only a UK parliament dominated by English MPs can consent to the people of Scotland voting on their future.
Today we learned that Labour will impose their preferred constitutional changes even if Scotland rejects them.
UK democracy eh?
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When my wee sister (
@Ashley1Bruce
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The banner at Celtic Park for Leigh Griffiths.
It's ok not to be ok
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This is where normalising transphobia has gotten us to this far - stuff like this getting shoved through doors in Glasgow by a group calling itself For Women
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Everything washes at 30°C in a big jumble just like everything cooks at 200°C for about 20-odd minutes. The world isn't as complicated as some of you want to make it.
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No matter how tough you think your job is just remember that someone has to do PR for the SQA tomorrow.
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Properly burst out laughing when I got the bit of Anas Sarwar's video where he says: "If you are the victim of inequality or injustice I'm on your side."
He literally spends a 5 figure sum each year bolstering the inequality and injustice of private schooling.
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He was, however, absolutely set on it. A Fairy House was pretty much the only big thing he wanted, and he was sure Santa would bring him one because he has been so good (which, to be fair, is true).
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If what Salmond cared about was maximising the pro-indy majority he'd be telling everyone to vote for the Greens.
Instead he's telling everyone to vote for him.
I'm not sure what part of this egotistical circus is particularly difficult to understand?
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Watching people trying to save John Swinney, when they've be calling for his head if he were a Tory or Labour education secretary, all while decrying "party politics", is just Scotland in a nutshell really.
How long did it take to forget about the kids? Less than a week.
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A question for men today:
Do you remember how old you were, or what situation you were in, when you realised that almost every woman you know has been sexually harassed and/or assaulted?
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I saw my autistic brother for the first time in two years today. He ate the sweets I took him, shared precisely none of them, and then when I said goodbye too many times as I was leaving he got annoyed and made his 'get out' gesture.
It was just wonderful.
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So I've had my rights as an EU citizen taken away based on a 52% UK-mandate (and no mandate at all in my actual country) but Scottish independence should require 60% polling? It seems increasingly clear that all unionism has left is rigging the game.
NEW: New PM should grasp Nicola Sturgeon's offer of compromise on indyref2.
My column in
@thetimes
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Hello? Police? I'd like to report a murder. I've just opened Twitter and found irony lying dead at my feet.
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But I only wanted OTHER people to lose THEIR rights! Now you're saying it affects ME too?
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I know it's hard but we really need to try to just calm down a wee bit
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That's an absolutely glorious correction in response to the whining of the Scottish Family Party 👏👏👏
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If you're a big fan of always feeling like your best isn't enough then I would strongly advise you to consider teaching as a career.
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Just been sent this. Seems the EIS has sent what is effectively a cease and desist letter to Us For Them, threatening legal action if they keep advising people to record lessons without the consent of teachers.
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The garden it is on has a slightly raised platform built into it in order to allow it all to open without dragging across the grass.
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What if she converted that into a Fairy House? Well, sure, but that's a lot of work surely? It was - but she insisted it was no problem.
Would you like to see what she made?
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"Since Metoo, this distinction has become so clouded that almost anything – hair stroking, touching, social kissing – can be construed as sexual harassment."
This feels like one of those sentences that tell you a lot more than the author was intending.
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But what the hell is a Fairy House? And where do you source such a thing?
Worry not, dear readers, because riding to the rescue came my mum - but to explain how we need to go back nearly 30 years.
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You can go further - a weak kid at a private school is protected by past results while an excellent kid at a poor state school is hindered by them.
Which is EXACTLY what I and others warned about months ago.
@MrMcEnaney
So.. If I read that right, They adjusted them on overall school prior performance. So kids with predicted As at private schools get As
Kids at state schools get Bs. Enforcing inequality
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You know what - enough is enough.
If
@NicolaSturgeon
or
@JohnSwinney
really think they can defend the
#SQAResults
how about we have a sit down interview and discuss it. I'm happy to work around their schedules as far as possible if that's what it takes.
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Yes. Stop being so bloody irresponsible. If you want to hang out indoors with your friends, without masks or social distancing, you'll just have to wait until you get to school.
The First Minister has warned school pupils to stop having house parties which breach Covid rules.
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We went from 'legitimate concerns about women's sex-based rights' to attacking Stonewall to legitimising conversion therapy awfully quickly eh? A lesson, perhaps.
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All I've done all day is read and talk and think about the
#SQAresults
and it has been the worst day I can remember in months. The way young people and teachers have been treated is absolutely disgraceful and the chances of any accountability very slim. It's just awful.
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Absolutely buzzing to wake up on Saturday with fewer rights than I have today because of a culture war over England's identity crisis.
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John Swinney says he has fixed the problem "right away".
When I do things "right away" I don't spend a week trying to do the opposite.
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