Ryan Broderick:
I did not expect email newsletters to be a life raft for digital expression, but, at least right now, they are. garbageday.substack.com/p/a-brand-new-…
Some particularly interesting links in Martin Belam’s Friday reading from last week. martinbelam.com/2021/friday-re…
@JamesFlanderss @nadialapa It is very strange. It’s looking increasingly unlikely I’ll meet any of you in person during your degree. I’m clinging to the hope that some final project supervision might be done face-to-face.
Anyone who thinks Bill Gates can create a vaccine-delivered microchip that controls people has clearly never seen a class full of parents try to use Microsoft Teams to do remote learning for thier children.
@petren Well, we do try, but the stock keeps vanishing mysteriously. t.co/gJOftKKmw…
My wife described in one tweet. twitter.com/boobspringstee…
I don’t understand why people panic buy toilet roll, when there’s perfectly good whisky waiting there to be panic bought.
What happened to the COVID marshalls? Did they ever get recruited or trained?
@giodonaldson @emkuntze @ustwogames It’s pre-dinner Alba here… t.co/Gj9Pmibtc… 
Here we go again… walkingwithdaddy.com/a-new-year-a-n…
@Mike__Abram @eatfarmnow Perfect. Thank you.
This was an idea I had back in lockdown 1.0, but too late to be of much use. Hopefully this will be useful to some parents this time around.
So, I’ve been starting to compile resources from the various nature and wildlife organisations around the UK to use with my children during the #tier4 #homeschooling. Rather than just keeping them to myself, I’m going to be sharing them in a newsletter: wildhomeschool.com
@jeremyhead @handolio God, no. It was a volume not a quality night.
@jeremyhead @handolio This is my point - last time they actively refused to support online learning. We have had precisely zero reassurance they will this time. Hoping for a better outcome, but no choice but to prepare for the worst.
@jeremyhead @handolio 8 and 5. It was a whisky night last night.
@jeremyhead @handolio Again, a bit sceptical, as they’ve unilaterally closed without direction from county or gov, the only local school to do so. That’s thrown a lot of parents under the bus, whose employers are being unsympathetic.
@jeremyhead @handolio In the end, @OakNational was the only reason I got any work done.
@jeremyhead @handolio Got to say, I’m sceptical because last time our school refused to support us at all. Eventually, by the summer term we got some worksheets to download. It was galling, because other local primaries were doing online learning.
As of tomorrow I’m back to trying to do two jobs: home school teacher and my other work. And there’s no furlough for the self-employed. And the clients I lost during the first lockdown largely didn’t come back. twitter.com/KalpanaFitz/st…
@corinne_podger @earleyedition That’s not an opinion, Corinne. That’s a fact. 😉
Just been informed that our daughters’ school will not be accepting most children for the first two weeks of term, because there will be insufficient staff available. Schools are effectively closing because of teacher action, not government action. (1/2)
Our government is not in control of its schools any more. A government that can’t govern…
This is a terrible state of affairs in the midst of the worst phase of a pandemic. Trust is gone. This is going to get bad. (2/2)