Stuart Rowntree
@primarythink.bsky.social
Primary leader, teacher and writer. Dad and husband. Committed to clear, calm and honest scholarship in education. Not bound to any single idea, but guided by curiosity and the pursuit of better thinking. Always learning, always refining.
Populist flip-flopping is exhausting. We know real progress requires investing in the most vulnerable, but the constant back-and-forth only deepens problems and keeps us stuck in this pitiful cycle we're all trapped in.
Just pull on some big boy pants and get on with it.
Just pull on some big boy pants and get on with it.
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Populist flip-flopping is exhausting. We know real progress requires investing in the most vulnerable, but the constant back-and-forth only deepens problems and keeps us stuck in this pitiful cycle we're all trapped in.
Just pull on some big boy pants and get on with it.
Just pull on some big boy pants and get on with it.
Focusing on 'readiness' frames children as the problem. We should be adapting schools to children’s developmental stages and addressing structural inequality, not raising targets.
It's raising the ceiling and ignoring the floor, yet again...
It's raising the ceiling and ignoring the floor, yet again...
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Focusing on 'readiness' frames children as the problem. We should be adapting schools to children’s developmental stages and addressing structural inequality, not raising targets.
It's raising the ceiling and ignoring the floor, yet again...
It's raising the ceiling and ignoring the floor, yet again...
Guilty as charged...
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Guilty as charged...
Will definitely be giving this a listen later...
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Will definitely be giving this a listen later...
This really is scintillating Sunday morning discourse...
To be applauded.
To be applauded.
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This really is scintillating Sunday morning discourse...
To be applauded.
To be applauded.
Reposted by Stuart Rowntree
(FWIW, I think the new curriculum review does a really good job at not damaging a system that is working while making sensible recommendations for additions)
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
(FWIW, I think the new curriculum review does a really good job at not damaging a system that is working while making sensible recommendations for additions)
I can't find jingoistic, hypocritical, grifting little fascist on here...
October 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I can't find jingoistic, hypocritical, grifting little fascist on here...
I've never seen it...
homer simpson is standing in a grassy field
ALT: homer simpson is standing in a grassy field
media.tenor.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I've never seen it...