How I Survived ‘Full Metal Jacket’, High School Style.

Tuesday 7:30 a.m. The phone rings. “Would you be able to cover a lesson in a school?” I start to find an excuse to say “No.” because my nerves were shocked out of their sleep.

YES!” I snap. I did not give my ego time to talk me out of it. After all, this is what I want to do. I want to work with children. To be the one that helps them to see their potential. And this is my first taster.Read More »

High Schools are the New Prison? You Decide.

We have all seen the posts on social media showing how the elderly have a life worse than convicts. While I trust that to be true, has anyone ever thought how the school system is set up like a prison? The new Academies are square blocks of concrete, with no charm. But more worrying is what goes on inside them. Let’s have a look at some of the regulations that high schools now have.

WATER.

In the U.K. we are experiencing record heat temperatures and not just for a day either. I know this is not normal weather behaviour for us Brits. But I thought that having water was a basic human right. It must be, because if you can’t pay your water bill, legally they can’t cut it off.

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Hate School Children

The SATS Generation

Government SATS are effortlessly damaging generations of children.

We have all seen posts from Parents complaining on social media for some years now about how the Government SATS system has been affecting our Children negatively and causing stress. Yet I still see new posts daily from parents new to the schooling system shocked about what is happening to their own children when they start their turn in the system of testing.Read More »