And that’s a wrap on GCSEs for N this season and on home ed for him forever (unless something goes drastically wrong with plan A of college next year!).
Down to one now…
It's still government policy to roll out AI tutors and other forms of AI across primary and secondary education.
Maybe a rough equivalent would be banning all kids from public parks in case someone sells heroin to some of them, while also prescribing methadone to all kids, just for funsies.
Luckily the government gave itself lots of powers months ago to implement (much of) whatever it decided using secondary legislation, which at least has very robust scrutiny mechanis…
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re the day's debate - I get that I was pretty precocious but I did move to an entirely different country where I didn't know anyone, by myself, at 17 years old, and I'm yet to regret it for even one moment, and I hate that we're apparently building a world where 17yos as seen as babies instead?
I'm sorry but I am just regularly very disturbed by how some adults talk about young people over the age of 16. (Or as they are in fact better known 'other adults'.)
The UK government has announced plans to introduce a social media ban for under-16s by spring 2027.
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social reacts to today's news, and measures it against the evidence we already have about social media restrictions.
