Quite literally Nazi propaganda.

This is excellent. Reminded me of an exchange between an autistic teenager and gov minister, Catherine McKinnell, on Woman's Hour SEND special. CK says that when we get it right for SEND kids, we get it right for everyone. The teen immediately claps back, saying she can't be in a school due to PTSD.

At last I have got around to responding to Professor Dame Uta Frith's TES piece, in which she questions the autism spectrum In a nutshell, I disagree... "yes, autism is a broad and diverse category — that doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with the category itself" medium.com/@suefletcher...

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Powerful speech on SEND from Chris Coghlan MP. CW suicide. www.facebook.com/share/v/18Rm...

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Exactly the culture we aim to foster in our classrooms.

Randomly clicked on this and discovered an astonishing documentary from 1975, which tells the story of Michael, a troubled but likable boy with a penchant for arson. He later said that he stopped setting fires for some time after the film as it had given him a voice. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I debunked the original headlines about these school guidelines when they first came out a couple of weeks ago. But then the Daily Mail pushed this on Facebook over the Easter weekend, so I felt the need to address that too! 1/6 🧵

Gorgeous bench in Hexham memorialising Benjamin Zephaniah

Today we launched a website to track how much orange assface plays golf. We’re guessing this thing is gonna get a workout! Bookmark it. Enjoy! More: TrumpGolfTrack.com

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

Whenever someone says "emerging author" i picture this

In my latest podcast, @mrjlauder.bsky.social told me about how the Government's proposed changes to EHCPs and the wider SEND system could affect parents like him and many others. Listen to the full episode here: insideyoured.com

Both of my children have an autism diagnosis that was made in the context of severe mental health crises (a severe anxiety disorder/ARFID). They would not have needed these had they grown up with an ed/health that supports human flourishing. Good sense from AF. www.annafreud.org/news/the-fab...

'Britain can cut the money disabled people need to eat regular meals and pay the rent. Or we can have an adult conversation about how an increasingly sick and ageing population is squared with the costs – and responsibilities – that come with it.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Took a moment write up something on May elections take a break. Given I wrote on By elections for Runcorn last year predicting the loss. You really think a SEND parent will vote Labour? A disabled person? An autistic, adhder neurodivergent ? open.substack.com/pub/ckeep/p/...

"Neurodivergent people incentivised to get a diagnosis because we will only take their needs seriously if we are legally required to do so."

As teacher/SENDCO - is a definite group of children with challenges that make school and learning a massive difficulty. The diagnosis pathway is rigorous - I speak as the mum of an AuDHD young adult who has been down it - they don’t diagnose lightly. I work in a very deprived community. Continued…

Seriously ...What resources?

Lol. What support? My kid barely received a secondary education. The state abandoned him.

Rowdy Roddy Piper's line from They Live. youtu.be/hXJI-G7ulsg?...

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

The sensitive beings are the canaries in the coal mine. They are an early warning system that has been flashing red for a while now, the system protects itself by centering the problem with the individual or family. So the Home Ed numbers rise, suitable schools need hours of transport to reach. 1/

Lots of interesting points here. This week, I had multiple headteachers in my classroom watching a lesson. The lesson was very carefully thought through with worked examples, modelling, scaffolding. Feedback was amazing: "you can't tell who the SEND kids are", "teaching like this is an act of /1

Thread #SEN : I’ve been contemplating the SEN reforms. With a limited budget, how will government ensure all schools have equal & fair access to Experts at Hand? The single Case Study cited as an example of EaH in practice has given me cause to think. It’s screenshotted below with link in ALT text /

Parents of Send pupils without EHCPs are least satisfied with schools, survey in England finds | The Guardian

I'd love to see a period accurate dark is rising series.

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

Hello, all. I'm writing this thread to ask for your help. I know it's a bit of a downer at the start of a sunny spring weekend, but please read to the end. (1/?)

In the latest Guardian Blind Date: OH MEIN GOTT! My review:

schoolsweek.co.uk/fury-as-ofst... There are heads around like this - presumably raised in Michael Wilshaw's image - who think that you can just demand and bully success from things by being "tough" or "unapologetic". The damage they cause goes unregistered in the all-powerful data.

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

These are people who could be living fulfilling lives, but services are designed such that they are abandoned and often live far from view. The struggle to reintegrate into society is real and not helped by the current discourse. I don't think many people understand this because so much goes unseen.

Another former sub postmaster dies awaiting payout. Wrongfully convicted, but no full compensation. Fujitsu hasn't paid anything. Govt must enact legislation to force it to. Injustice everywhere - Grenfell fire, Infected blood, HBOS frauds, insolvency frauds .... govts protect big business

@tesmagazine.bsky.social Our recent interview with professor Uta Frith on autism has generated a lot of discussion. Dr Sue Franklin has written a response arguing what she thinks Frith got wrong - but also where her challenge to the status quo was welcome. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

So National Autistic Society responded to @tesmagazine.bsky.social article. One for you there @johngroberts.bsky.social. Accurate response tbh. bit.ly/4s20zu5

Uta Frith said masking isn’t real, late diagnoses were probably wrong, and non-speaking autistic people who write may be lying. She admitted she had no proof. None of it was challenged. I wrote the response she didn’t get: www.canarysend.co.uk/canarysendbl...

Reading more detail does not make this story any better….

💸 A prominent academy trust that issued six of its central team with Teslas will make huge cuts after plunging almost £500,000 into the red https://schoolsweek.co.uk/academy-trust-to-make-big-cuts-after-falling-500k-into-the-red/

Like Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Very good thread... this discussion will throw some highly vulnerable people under a bus while people cheer from thd sidelines.

Hi @utafrith.bsky.social - very disappointed that you omitted to mention the suicide stats for autistic people in the TES. This isn't solely in teachers' gift to manage. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

SEND Reform Reflections, part 1 – ‘Presence vs. Participation’  Or, ‘When is inclusion not really inclusion?’  I set aside an entire evening to read the SEND reforms consultation but ended up, in that first sitting, only getting as far as page 8. I got stuck on some peculiar wording and ended up…

Uta Frith did her best work 30+ years ago - most of it before autism researchers started realising they needed to listen to what autistic people were saying about our own experiences. I wish she'd caught up. oolong.medium.com/autistics-on...

Ah, another of Prof. Uta's regular, "The world moved on & I don't like it" articles, claiming that autism is a disease, & inferring most autistic women are likely misdiagnosed - not autistic, that if you can manage a conversation you're not autistic, & there's no such thing as masking. Oh dear.

Important thread

Tomorrow we are making posters celebrating things we can do. I shall be dusting off my trusty recorder. #KPop