You may have missed the recent news that Zoe Ball’s daughter has, like her brother, and indeed Zoe herself, been diagnosed with ADHD. One of the strategies that Zoe Ball’s daughter will be given by ADHD ‘specialists’ is a range of fidget toys to help manage her condition. Up and down the country, in classrooms […]
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The story about a family of benefits’ recipients buying £4 tickets for the Tower of London, rather than the £111 charged to non-welfare claimants, marks a return to the Eliza Doolittle school of social engineering. If we just show the peasant underclass how the other half live, perhaps they’ll all start behaving. In many ways,
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Bleak news for the 9,000 primary school children served by the Merton School Sports Partnership which has decided to ban parents and spectators from their sports events. As usual ‘safeguarding’ is used as justification: “Over the years we have sadly observed an increase in safeguarding concerns when parents/carers come to support their children at our
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The spider’s web was tattooed in greyscale across the gentleman’s face and shaven head. The spider itself was inked, crouching behind the right ear. It had fangs. The gentleman approached me in the playground of a down-at-heel primary school where my husband was Chair of Governors. He said: “What’s your man doing about this shithole?
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During the SEND spending debate a wide variety of MPs, celebrities, Times commentators and Mumsnet posters, will offer, like an animal sacrifice, the bodies of broken, neglected, state-abandoned children with ‘special educational needs and disabilities’ to an appalled public. The children will lie with sad eyes and frail limbs in the collective imagination as the
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Even our dear leader, founder of this excellent website, is wrong sometimes. In his latest Spectator column, Toby Young raises the redundancies that will inevitably hit SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) staff as a result of Labour’s education policies. Putting aside the overall idiocy of Labour’s education policies, Toby Young is incorrect in seeing
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