@darynsimon @doxtdatorb And your friends who had the same experience? They’re all doing great?

@DawnPDSi @doxtdatorb Yes. Thanks for asking.

@darynsimon I'm sure it's not the only way. But @Miss_Snuffy believes in it, and it seems to be working at Michaela, so why wouldn't they shout about it?

@MrSamPullan @Miss_Snuffy The original tweet wasn’t directed at any particular school

@darynsimon It comes back, again, to a blind application of "what works". Schools are more organic than businesses and need judgement and care in how they operate. The climate of "shouldn't we all do what they do" is tiring and wrong.

@AfLPie Carefully observed and perfectly articulated, as always 👍

@darynsimon My husband @drandrewross is the same. He had good teachers and awesome parents who supported him all the way through to a PhD . Then the poor sod met me and it went wrong!

@drhelenross @drandrewross 😂😂😂

@darynsimon Shit , my wife was articulating this from 1980s. She had so much success with pupils from disad backgrounds. Her reward? Redundancy. Age 49. Couldn't get another job. Total waste of...experience and the shit that comes with it. £££

@madastheycome Really sorry to hear that

@misterunwin Zero tolerance is highly exclusive and selective. I think we need to do better.

@darynsimon Hang on Daryn. You will end up on the Tower with views like that. You need strict discipline and rote learning to succeed ESPECIALLY if you are POOR! Gibb, Truss, Young all agree on that so it MUST be right🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡

@darynsimon Of course the real ‘proof of the pudding’ is whether such policies achieve sustainable results over years, and not just in the first exam cohort.

@darynsimon Spot on.

@darynsimon I also think it sad that in order to achieve education is pared down to the basics and gets lots of support by people whose own child has science labs, school orchestras, fantastic art department etc. All children should get these things in their schools.

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@darynsimon Our attitudes to learning are fundamental to how and what we learn.

@darynsimon Come and see Harris Westminster - disadvantaged students succeed and we have a behaviour policy that rests on enabling students to make good decisions.

@darynsimon Working in tough schools most of my career. In inner-city Middlesbrough (98% FSM) we went from 29% level 4+ to 95% level 4+.(5th most improved school in the country) We weren’t overly strict, we worked with parents we got children to love learning. There are other ways...