Sometimes think middle class folk who think schools did NOTHING because teachers didn't offer 6 hours of online learning each day are living blissful ignorance of the endless hours of support schools worked tirelessly to provide simply because they didn't benefit from it

I mean if you didn't need the food drops, the welfare calls, the house visits, the telephone support and everything else then you can be forgiven for thinking schools weren't up to much.

When Williamson makes his silly comments about teachers, he's bracketing out this because he's still living in that Govian mistake of believes schools only providing (and primarily being judged on) the education they provide

It would be easy to put this down to ignorance, a continuation of the middle-class take that shapes our education and accountability system, except... well, it was *him* who made schools an extension of children's seviced during lockdown.

It was him who directed us to up our safeguarding, to get food to families, to do all sorts of things above and beyond just education. Things which took a lot of time and capacity. And he was absolutely right to do so. It was our duty to serve and protect our families.

But to then turn around and utter nonsense about teachers not doing so much, complaining at the levels of education being provided, making comparisons with private schools (without the deprivation issues and where all kids have tech). Well, it just seems purposely obnoxious

And I don't think schools should have to apologise for the fact that they had to use their limited capacity to prioritise safeguarding and welfare. All the more for those in our most deprived areas for whom this was an immense challenge, which they rose to admirably.

Of course I must try to manage my shock and surprise that schools serving the most deprived areas should be getting punched down on in the education system.