My hunch (based on teaching in NE London) is that EAL pupils are a positive for a school's progress stats. Their KS2 scores tend a bit low (because they're still getting the hang of the lin… (View Post)

The main thing is... so what? It might be causing a fail in community cohesion if pupils never get fluent in English. It might be diverting an unreasonable amount of resource to get pupils up to spee… (View Post)

Labour's core vote is about as YIMBY as you can get- if they can't get housebuilding happening, we really are stuffed. (Meanwhile, of course Reform are NIMBY. Older homeowners, many of them… (View Post)

Odd autocorrect that turns ers into ups. (View Post)

There's a certain kind of old-school Conservative who is convinced that's been the policy for decades. (View Post)