jameshandscombe.bsky.social
Executive Principal, Mathematician, Teacher, Wordsmith not necessarily in that order.
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I’m not the one that can’t answer a straight question.
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That depends on whether those schools have happy and successful students - if they do then their plans seem to be working (we might not be able to see he, but we can rejoice in happy kids), if not then you’re right, they need new plans.
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What do you think I’m doing?
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That doesn’t explain where you think I’ve insisted things.
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On this particular issue, my experience is that male teachers are far more likely to be generous about letting girls go to toilets to change their period products than female ones.
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I think you underestimate the human ability to learn and empathise. You don’t need to have experienced something first hand to know about it - whilst it’s not the same as going through it yourself, it can be a lot more than having no clue.
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I’m interested in which of my phrases you believe is me “insisting” all is well. My recollection is that we have both delighted in great schools of all- to clarify, there are also some awful schools where bullying is rife, lessons are disrupted and kids are neither happy nor successful.
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Are you suggesting that men don’t understand what’s good about learning, or that women’s toilets have some secret joys? Or are you just being sexist and dismissing someone’s contribution to a conversation on the grounds of their gender?
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In the classroom.
The joy of learning never was and will never be in school toilets.
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I’m thankful for every young person who has a school they can go to where they can get educated, be safe and happy, achieve.
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I thought we’d agreed on “happy successful students” - that sounds like a pretty good definition of “great” to me.
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That’s hypothetical, anecdotal and an extremely small sample size. I’m not sure we can base much on it.
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And many who do.
We should rejoice in great schools of all shapes, sizes and styles.
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Well done to all the ones who manage it and have happy and successful pupils indeed.
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Do you have evidence for that final assertion - it’s not uncontroversial.
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Yes - I think that schools need to teach children to be mature and responsible adults. I don’t think this premise is a change to policy or to the approach of most schools.
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I’m not sure what you’re actually suggesting here. What schools need to develop joyful relationships is students who are present and who use their freedoms to help each other learn rather than cause unhappiness, damage property, or simply waste each other’s time.
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That’s a charming village/ hamlet. Where is it?
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Good to give them choices - although I’m not sure the two are compatible, fathoms being a naval measure.
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Did you go for 220 yards or an eighth of a mile?
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Based on a standard leg of 100 miles (clearly this depends on form of transport and terrain - I’m using the widely recognized Ford Focus on single-carriageway A-roads) and a Biblical stint of 7 years (Exodus 21) then a leg per stint is 4.4 furlongs per fortnight.
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A furlong per fortnight is a thousand and eighty three million leagues per eon.
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Has Ramsay said that he supports the Supreme Court ruling?
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I have.
Here:
bsky.app/profile/jame...
But also there isn’t homework - this isn’t a taught course and you don’t have the authority to act as gatekeeper on truth and justice.
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I don’t know enough about Adrian Ramsay’s position to judge it: all I’ve done is quote one of his public statements and say that it doesn’t appear discriminatory - you are assigning views to me that I’ve not expressed.
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The only thing I’ve defended is this statement: “The question is how do we ensure that both group A and group B have access to the services they need, in a way that meets their needs and preserves their dignity.”
I am, as you note, a mathematician for the sake of goodness.
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Nobody should be excluded from public spaces, everyone should be able to go about their business with dignity - we all have a responsibility to stand up for each other’s rights (and wishing discrimination on others is a failing in this regard).
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I recognize that this is a very personal issue for you, and one that you feel passionately about, but you don’t make things better by refusing to listen to those you disagree with, by denying their experience, or by equating polite disagreement with intolerance.
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I had never heard of either candidate until this morning. I have to say this exchange has not convinced me that this leadership election is likely to make the Green Party more credible, which I think is a shame.
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I’ve seen a fair amount of hate, prejudice, oppression, marginalization, and this doesn’t seem like an attack on either A or B: “The question is how do we ensure that both group A and group B have access to the services they need, in a way that meets their needs and preserves their dignity.”
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The exact point being made is that if a party is in the position of having such poor leadership candidates that this story doesn’t get you laughed off stage then they have a credibility problem. Saying “All our alternatives are worse,” simply reinforces the concern.
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You are the only person on here talking about Adrian Ramsay at all - can you fill us in on the transphobia you are referring to?
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I’ve never heard another politician have to defend him or herself against accusations of breast enlargement hypnosis before - so I really don’t think it can be word for word.
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I think that in order to end genocide, transphobia, wealth inequality we are going to need high levels of competence from people who understand the consequences of their actions in complex and nuanced situations.
This story strongly suggests a lack of good sense and good intentions aren’t enough.
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If silly discussions are not to your taste then you must find social media trying indeed. I hope your day is filled with real sunshine and real blue skies.
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People behave differently in the butchers than in the pub, in the post office than in the bedroom.
I think people have a way of being on social media but that doesn’t make it any less real or any less part of life.
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What is it then?
It very much doesn’t seem like the fevered imagination of a diseased mind.
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1) Is this the real life?
2) Or is it just fantasy?
3) Caught in the landslide, no escape from reality.
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Ok, then that’s the hypothetical I’m considering.
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I’m not sure what you mean by real life - I think we only have one and it is the real one.
To answer Freddie’s questions: yes, no, and ok.
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You’d need to provide some substantial evidence to support such a claim - vibes wouldn’t be enough.
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I’m not sure how you’re defining failure if attempting an enterprise and measurably not achieving it doesn’t count as an example.
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Sounds like you’ve found your happy place then.