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debrakidd.bsky.social
Teacher, doctor, author, Leader of Learning and Teaching at the British School of Brussels. Books: Curriculum of Hope, Teaching Notes from the Frontline, Uncharted Territories and Becoming Mobius. A Pedagogy of Power currently gestating!
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We had a three day working week in school this week (Belgium has a lot of bank holidays in May/June so rather than a half term, they get scattered into 2 three day and 2 four day weeks). It's bloody glorious, even if you do end up squashing 5 days worth of work into 3.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Brexit is killing us. New study: Brexit has led to 1,485 extra deaths/year in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Study’s lead investigator: "Brexit has had real life-or-death consequences for patients in our hospitals... (as the loss of staff) led to a measurable decline in care quality.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

And well done Wetherspoons #InclusionMatters

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there. (Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

submitted 5 days ago • 61 comments

The EHRC guidance isn't just aggressively anti-trans, it's also actively authoritarian and openly anti-LGBTQ+, attempting to break LGBTQ+ freedom of association. Any government that does not resist it will be complicit in the most significant shift to social conservatism we've seen in decades.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

It’s important to note that this is guidance, not law and impossible to reinforce, but it’s a dark day for trans people. My daughter will still go to the women’s toilet and be the zero threat she always was. Shame on Labour for keeping Faulkner in this role. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

In many ways, particularly, but not exclusively, anti-trans, anti-disabled and anti-migrants, Labour has gone further than Conservatives. It isn't only inhumanity, although that would be argument enough, it's bad policy. They're chasing voters who'll never support them, and losing those who might 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

39 years I gave to #Labour - not just my vote but pushing leaflets through doors, displaying posters, going from door to door in the rain. I'm know I'm not the only one feeling completely betrayed and despondent. There's nothing there but cowardice.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

I feel increasingly disconnected from the party I voted for and had such high hopes for. Did we give them a mandate to cos-play Reform-lite? I want them to lead and argue for their vision instead of chasing polls. Oh and charge me more income tax instead of penalising kids & disabled people

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments