Education people: if we really care about doing the best for our students, why do we seem so unconcerned about the proliferation of shitty resources, both free and paid for?

Am properly stuck back into classroom teaching and doing some consultancy work on a very high profile education resource and both experiences have left me depressed at what people get away with when making school science resources

First, a textbook that is so unbelievably shit, from a HUGE publisher that it would be immoral if I *didn’t* burn it. These companies make billions and yet are scrimping on paying for proper editing.

Second, video scripts so incredibly bad I would have believed it if I’d been told they’d been generated by AI as an experiment.

We don’t have to accept this situation; it would be easy to make things better. One thing I’ve repeatedly suggested is a masters level qualification in education resource production, taught by the few experts in this field still remaining before they die.

This would open up career opportunities for teachers who actually like teaching, and create a bigger pool of people who publishers / TV companies etc could call upon to help write textbooks, video scripts etc.

If anyone reading this agrees with me and is in a position to start up such a course, please get in touch.

Or, you know, carry on trawling Twitter for teachers who seem to have time on their hands.