Leadership

Training Day

Posted on 04-09-202504-09-2025by admin

Welcome back to the shit show.

First day back. Apparently, “we’re not where we need to be”… Fuck this! First training session. This industry is fucked! Within half an hour, the room is dead behind the eyes. Teachers go from looking ten years younger to one of the Olivia Atwood £100k+ atrocities: dead under stretched skin. Teachers are disengaged, already checking the clock. Instead of being inspired, we’re dry fucked with data, graphs, acronyms, and the same tedious obsession with results. Training isn’t training anymore; it’s a performance review in disguise, a guilt trip dressed up as “professional development.” It’s the opposite of motivating. But worst of all, the system pretends this is “support.” wtf?

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The Blame Game

Posted on 07-07-202511-06-2025by admin

Everyone points fingers, especially at teachers. Meanwhile, kids (and now adults) learn that nothing is ever their fault.

Education is drowning in blame. When grades drop, teachers are blamed. When behaviour spirals, it’s pinned on staff. If there’s a mental-health crisis, guess who takes the hit. Kids watch this circus unfold and learn the one skill that seems to matter: deflect, deny, repeat.

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Restorative Chat Bullshit

Posted on 03-07-202511-06-2025by admin

Nice words don’t work without real consequences.

Don’t belive the bullshit that every behavioural issue can be fixed with a restorative conversation. That if you sit the kid down, let them talk, and get everyone to “reflect,” things will magically improve. Spoiler alert: they don’t. Restorative practice has been diluted to the point of uselessness. It’s become a ritual of empty scripts, soft tones, and zero fucking impact. You cannot ‘chat’ your way out of a discipline crisis.

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The Classroom isnt a Democracy

Posted on 30-06-202511-06-2025by admin

No, students don’t get a vote.

Somewhere along the line, we started treating classrooms like town fucking halls. Rules became suggestions. Sanctions became “conversations.” Teachers were told to listen more, say less, and act like facilitators rather than leaders. And now we see the rusults: Total fucking chaos. Kids don’t need a peer, they need a boundary. A classroom is not a democracy. It’s a learning environment, and the adult is in charge. So step the fuck up and act like a fucking adult!

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The Collapse of the Classroom Part 3

Posted on 19-06-202511-06-2025by admin

Reclaiming the Classroom

This is the final part of my series on student behaviour. In Part 1, I tackled the breakdown of basic civility: the rudeness, the refusal, the fucking cheek. In Part 2, I broke down the dopamine nightmare—the tech-fuelled, attention-sapping, overstimulated disaster we’re now expected to teach through.

Now it’s time to fight back. This post is about what we can do—because while we’re not responsible for fixing everything, we sure as shit don’t have to lie down and take it. Reclaiming the classroom isn’t about being perfect. It’s about being intentional. Strategic. Defiant.

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The Collapse of the Classroom Part 1

Posted on 16-06-202509-06-2025by admin

The Erosion of Classroom Civility

The classroom, once a space of basic cooperation—however reluctant—has become loaded with hostility, apathy, and arrogance. The respect has gone. Kids walk in late, with no pen, no folder, no clue what day it is, and expect to be entertained. If you challenge it, you get attitude: “Why are you shouting at me?” or “What’s your problem?” The concept of effort is alien. The idea of consequence? Hilarious. School is no longer a space for learning; it’s an inconvenience in their dopamine-chasing day

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The Authority Illusion

Posted on 10-06-202521-05-2025by admin

The damage done when nobody dares say, “this is bollocks.”

Authority in education is broken. It’s not based on understanding, expertise, or results—it’s based on who shouts loudest and wears the right fucking Ted Baker suit. One confident dickhead at the top can derail an entire school. And because no one wants to be seen as “unprofessional”, we let it happen. We’re stuck in a system where people confuse leadership posturing with actual knowledge—and it’s costing us everything.

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Change Fatigue

Posted on 27-05-202521-05-2025by admin

Curriculum churn, course swaps, and top-down bullshit are driving talent out the door.

Change is supposed to be progress. But in schools, it’s a never-ending shitshow. A procession of poorly thought-out policies, new faces, new acronyms, and constant disruption. The ground never settles. Teachers are left picking up the pieces while trying to meet targets, keep kids learning, and cling to what’s left of their sanity: “no, no…. I’m fine…I SAID I’M FINE!!!”. The damage isn’t theoretical—it’s fucking everywhere. Burnout, confusion, high turnover, and a profession running on fumes.

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The Illusion of Strategy

Posted on 20-05-202513-05-2025by admin

The Endless Cycle of Incomplete Ideas and Social Media Echo Chambers

Leadership is addicted to fads. Not thoughtful, evidence-based reform—just whatever half-baked buzzword happens to be trending. They pull shallow ideas from books they barely read, twist them into top-down mandates, and dump them on staff like scripture. No debate. No doubt. No clue. The result is confused classrooms, fractured staffrooms, and a profession that’s running on fumes while leadership cosplays as innovators.

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Spoon-Fed Minds

Posted on 29-04-202513-05-2025by admin

How Education Is Undermining Critical Thinking

Education was supposed to sharpen minds, not blunt them. It seems schools are little more than factories, churning out obedient workers rather than independent thinkers. Instead of setting off fires of curiosity, we smother them with compliance and conformity. It’s not just a system that’s broken — it’s a system that’s actively hostile to real thought. We’ve traded thinking for ticking, and every day we perpetuate this bullshit, we’re complicit.