Laura McInerney
@missmc.bsky.social
Co-Founder of TeacherTapp, daily poll of 12k teachers. Former editor of Schools Week & Guardian columnist. Once a teacher, always a teacher.
SAY: Laura 'Mack & Ernie' (like there's 3 of us!)
SAY: Laura 'Mack & Ernie' (like there's 3 of us!)
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When a pandemic hits, a hospital cleaner is one of the most important and underappreciated people in the country.
December 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
When a pandemic hits, a hospital cleaner is one of the most important and underappreciated people in the country.
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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1. There's going to be a lot of talk about over or under diagnosis and the conversation is going to be a mess.
This is because how ADHD and ASD are defined has shifted. An ADHD diagnosis today isn't the same thing as an ADHD diagnosis ten years ago.
This is because how ADHD and ASD are defined has shifted. An ADHD diagnosis today isn't the same thing as an ADHD diagnosis ten years ago.
December 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
1. There's going to be a lot of talk about over or under diagnosis and the conversation is going to be a mess.
This is because how ADHD and ASD are defined has shifted. An ADHD diagnosis today isn't the same thing as an ADHD diagnosis ten years ago.
This is because how ADHD and ASD are defined has shifted. An ADHD diagnosis today isn't the same thing as an ADHD diagnosis ten years ago.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?
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Today was so long that my second @teachertapp.bsky.social alert came through. All answered, streak intact.
a man wearing glasses and a brown suit is sitting on a couch and making a funny face .
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a brown suit is sitting on a couch and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Today was so long that my second @teachertapp.bsky.social alert came through. All answered, streak intact.
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The backlash to the proposals to limit trial by jury is a great example of the UK's stale cakeism.
We want the nice things but don't want to pay for them.
Then when someone proposes something different we kick off, so they back down, and the cycle of stagnation continues.
We want the nice things but don't want to pay for them.
Then when someone proposes something different we kick off, so they back down, and the cycle of stagnation continues.
November 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The backlash to the proposals to limit trial by jury is a great example of the UK's stale cakeism.
We want the nice things but don't want to pay for them.
Then when someone proposes something different we kick off, so they back down, and the cycle of stagnation continues.
We want the nice things but don't want to pay for them.
Then when someone proposes something different we kick off, so they back down, and the cycle of stagnation continues.
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A Year in Willerby, available in December.
12 stories printed in a limited edition, numbered book. Illustrated with lino cut prints like these. £20.
Not available on Amazon.
Let us know if you're interested here. We expect to sell out.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/a-year-in-wi...
12 stories printed in a limited edition, numbered book. Illustrated with lino cut prints like these. £20.
Not available on Amazon.
Let us know if you're interested here. We expect to sell out.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/a-year-in-wi...
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A Year in Willerby, available in December.
12 stories printed in a limited edition, numbered book. Illustrated with lino cut prints like these. £20.
Not available on Amazon.
Let us know if you're interested here. We expect to sell out.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/a-year-in-wi...
12 stories printed in a limited edition, numbered book. Illustrated with lino cut prints like these. £20.
Not available on Amazon.
Let us know if you're interested here. We expect to sell out.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/a-year-in-wi...
Interesting thread.
1. Reasons for the collapse of the Great Edu Conversation.
First important to acknowledge the whole thing was very unlikely. People writing essays about their jobs for free on the internet and engaging in deep conversations about other people's essays. So always fragile.
And then..
First important to acknowledge the whole thing was very unlikely. People writing essays about their jobs for free on the internet and engaging in deep conversations about other people's essays. So always fragile.
And then..
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Interesting thread.
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If you're over 65 and putting 20k a year into a cash ISA you can definitely afford to pay more tax.
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you're over 65 and putting 20k a year into a cash ISA you can definitely afford to pay more tax.
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
Was pondering the other day that if it’s the end of civilisation, and we’re burning library books to stay warm, what five books do you save?
The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster
www.economist.com/1843/2025/11...
#TOK #TheArts
www.economist.com/1843/2025/11...
#TOK #TheArts
The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster
Billions of dollars’ worth of art is imperilled by climate change. Curators will have to make sacrifices
www.economist.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Was pondering the other day that if it’s the end of civilisation, and we’re burning library books to stay warm, what five books do you save?
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I read this as ‘no PE’ which I can get on board with!
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I read this as ‘no PE’ which I can get on board with!
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*rolls eyes*
The insistence among some HE folk on using a distorted funding baseline is really something to behold.
Per-student HE funding is now the same as in 2011-12 before tuition fees were tripled.
Over that same period, colleges, adult learning and school sixth forms have been pummelled.
The insistence among some HE folk on using a distorted funding baseline is really something to behold.
Per-student HE funding is now the same as in 2011-12 before tuition fees were tripled.
Over that same period, colleges, adult learning and school sixth forms have been pummelled.
Universities in England are receiving over £6 billion less each year for teaching students than they did a decade ago, new analysis shows. Helen Packer reports
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/university-teaching-income-ps64-billon-less-10-years-ago
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/university-teaching-income-ps64-billon-less-10-years-ago
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
*rolls eyes*
The insistence among some HE folk on using a distorted funding baseline is really something to behold.
Per-student HE funding is now the same as in 2011-12 before tuition fees were tripled.
Over that same period, colleges, adult learning and school sixth forms have been pummelled.
The insistence among some HE folk on using a distorted funding baseline is really something to behold.
Per-student HE funding is now the same as in 2011-12 before tuition fees were tripled.
Over that same period, colleges, adult learning and school sixth forms have been pummelled.
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ChatGPT for teachers has launched. A landing page has a series of suggested tasks such as curriculum planning, reviewing work with a rubric. I'd like to see a robust study on the the following:
chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...
chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...
ChatGPT for high school teachers
Teachers from across the U.S. shared chats they use for lesson planning, research, and administrative tasks.
Tap a chat to get started.
chatgpt.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
ChatGPT for teachers has launched. A landing page has a series of suggested tasks such as curriculum planning, reviewing work with a rubric. I'd like to see a robust study on the the following:
chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...
chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...
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Welcome to Willerby.
A village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable at the weather.
More than fifty free short stories that can be read in any order.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Three good stories to start if you've never visited before.
👇🏻
A village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable at the weather.
More than fifty free short stories that can be read in any order.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Three good stories to start if you've never visited before.
👇🏻
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Welcome to Willerby.
A village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable at the weather.
More than fifty free short stories that can be read in any order.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Three good stories to start if you've never visited before.
👇🏻
A village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable at the weather.
More than fifty free short stories that can be read in any order.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Three good stories to start if you've never visited before.
👇🏻
I’m not sure how the government solves this, but my week has been an example of slow civic grind-down…
Wrote to TFL to see if local residents can install or pay for some extra security messages (we can do it but need permission ).
Received ‘thanks for feedback, noted’ reply. That’s it. No answer.
Wrote to TFL to see if local residents can install or pay for some extra security messages (we can do it but need permission ).
Received ‘thanks for feedback, noted’ reply. That’s it. No answer.
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I’m not sure how the government solves this, but my week has been an example of slow civic grind-down…
Wrote to TFL to see if local residents can install or pay for some extra security messages (we can do it but need permission ).
Received ‘thanks for feedback, noted’ reply. That’s it. No answer.
Wrote to TFL to see if local residents can install or pay for some extra security messages (we can do it but need permission ).
Received ‘thanks for feedback, noted’ reply. That’s it. No answer.
A thing I don’t understand is how junior doctors can simultaneously be asking for more money *and* complaining there aren’t enough jobs for them all.
Are there other disputes which have had the same basis? I can’t think of one.
Are there other disputes which have had the same basis? I can’t think of one.
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A thing I don’t understand is how junior doctors can simultaneously be asking for more money *and* complaining there aren’t enough jobs for them all.
Are there other disputes which have had the same basis? I can’t think of one.
Are there other disputes which have had the same basis? I can’t think of one.
Journalist is on BBC Radio 4 right now panicking over having ‘brain fog’ - ie one day when she couldn’t remember what she planned to say on air.
Was just thinking: Hasn’t every teacher experienced this?
And she said: ‘lots of people have written in… teachers…’
Was just thinking: Hasn’t every teacher experienced this?
And she said: ‘lots of people have written in… teachers…’
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Journalist is on BBC Radio 4 right now panicking over having ‘brain fog’ - ie one day when she couldn’t remember what she planned to say on air.
Was just thinking: Hasn’t every teacher experienced this?
And she said: ‘lots of people have written in… teachers…’
Was just thinking: Hasn’t every teacher experienced this?
And she said: ‘lots of people have written in… teachers…’
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❌ Exclusive: AI-driven reports that government said would help bring attendance 'back to – and beyond – pre-pandemic levels' have been suspended just days after they were launched
This comes after leaders noticed inaccuracies in the data provided...
schoolsweek.co.uk/embarrassing...
This comes after leaders noticed inaccuracies in the data provided...
schoolsweek.co.uk/embarrassing...
AI attendance reports suspended just days after launch
Government had said the reports would help bring attendance 'back to - and beyond - pre-pandemic levels'
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
❌ Exclusive: AI-driven reports that government said would help bring attendance 'back to – and beyond – pre-pandemic levels' have been suspended just days after they were launched
This comes after leaders noticed inaccuracies in the data provided...
schoolsweek.co.uk/embarrassing...
This comes after leaders noticed inaccuracies in the data provided...
schoolsweek.co.uk/embarrassing...
Wild times.
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Wild times.
People forget that there was dog poo everywhere, besides anything else!
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
People forget that there was dog poo everywhere, besides anything else!
@michaelt1979.bsky.social
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by” - Sun Tzu.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by” - Sun Tzu.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales - BBC News
The government says it will save £100m over this Parliament and less than 20% of voters can name their PCC.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
@michaelt1979.bsky.social
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by” - Sun Tzu.
😆
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by” - Sun Tzu.
😆
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Every time the radio says Trump is demanding One Billion Dollars from the BBC, all I can see is…
dr. evil from the movie dumb and dumber is sitting in a chair .
ALT: dr. evil from the movie dumb and dumber is sitting in a chair .
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Every time the radio says Trump is demanding One Billion Dollars from the BBC, all I can see is…