Nigel dissembling is always less effective when what you actually wrote is in a quote chain. I don’t have much issue with you asking whether it is all the government’s fault (except that your questio… (View Post)

In one of my six back-to-back lessons yesterday I taught non-homogenous second-order differential equations to Y13. Rather worrying, given your remarkable insight into both my intellectual abilities … (View Post)

Leon, 99% of the time you are infuriating, but then 1% of the time you go and post something that makes up for all the nonsense. It is really quite discombobulating. ETA: I expressly avoided liking y… (View Post)

At the moment, wholeheartedly yes, but I think the system has its part to play too. Even when more teachers were around ineffective ones were hard to move on or support to improve. Right now, far too… (View Post)

You seem determined to stick to ad hominem (I concede that you would be well within your rights to claim I started it, apologies, I enjoy a good round in the ring. My first comment was directed at yo… (View Post)