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The PropaDaNda Machine
I was interviewed about AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY on a former student’s podcast recently. You can listen to it here…
Remembering Mom
“mom may have driven me crazy, but there is also no doubt she was a great mother. In fact, she might have been great because she drove me crazy“
Blogging via Playlists
“Every week of remote teaching I’ve done since January, while I may not have been blogging I have been recording my thoughts and feelings in a way because I’ve made a playlist each week”
Obligatory 2020 Year In Review Post
“despite 2020 being the obvious poster child for an awful year, I don’t look back on it as the worst year ever. 2010 already wins that honour for me. The year my dad died unexpectedly and I became a teacher at the price of all my freedom. Or maybe 2012, the year my mom got her terminal cancer diagnosis? Or 2013, the year that she finally died? There have been worse years on a personal level and even on a global level”
COVID 19 - What I Didn’t Want for Christmas
“We are a cowardly profession that hides behind a misplaced sense of duty and, as a result, normalised dangerous behaviours across the country which have led us into this mess. “Just following orders” is never a good enough excuse. The government should be held accountable, yes, but more so the school leaders and unions who let them get away with it.”
A Shocking Loss: Remembering My Boss
“On Sunday we got an email telling us that our boss - the Head Teacher of our school - was dead. Heart attack. Unexpected and devastating. A total shock.”
Forced Alienation: On Being Swept Under The Rug
“I was asked by a colleague on Friday if everything was alright? They hadn’t seen me much around the school, and when they did, I didn’t seem my usual self. They said I seemed to be on my own a lot. Quiet. Not talkative. I looked like something was wrong.”
Observations From The Front
“It has been a week now since being thrust back into a busy school full of nearly a thousand people after six months of living safely and solitarily in lockdown. Here are some observations from the frontline of Covid 19, in one of the UK’s worst areas for infection, Birmingham, just days before we return to a stricter, nationally imposed, lockdown…”
DaN on Dissident Island Radio
“Last week I was interviewed by Pinda at Dissident Island Radio…”
To Bury Me Alive Again
“I am not merely returning to work tomorrow, I and all other teachers across the country are returning to be pawns in a political stunt that will put much of the country at great risk under the propagandist illusion of a moral imperative to get children back in school.”
Scene Through A Windscreen
“In March, for a few weeks, we saw a glimpse of our potential. That glimpse scared those in charge, and they are desperate to get things back to the way they were so we don’t get any funny ideas about restructuring our lives to be more focused on people instead of profits.”
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