Andrew Old
@oldandrewuk
Teacher. Any attempt to suggest that the word battleground in my blog title refers to my classroom or my students indicates you have lost the argument.
Blog post for Sunday 6th July 2025 School shaming is unfair. Part 5 open.substack.com/pub/andrewold/…
Imho, there's nothing worse than taking on a class where students have been allowed to call out - whether it be questions or answers. I very occasionally do a language game where I allow calling out, and tell the class. Otherwise never. It really should not be the norm.
I've been working on our questioning and behaviour management courses, and I think it's now my strong opinion that questioning training is a complete waste of time if students calling out in lessons is a common occurrence. >
A principle that works for schools too.
Never take advice on dealing with violence from people who don’t have to deal with violence.
This is good news. There should be laws like this all across this nation.
Never take advice on dealing with violence from people who don’t have to deal with violence.
One thing that concerns me about math education at the primary school level is the idea that every math concept, no matter how trivial, needs to be explored for days on end using countless models and manipulatives in order to provide students with a "deep understanding" of these…
i don’t think people are actually getting any dumber i think stupid people have just become way more confident.
The people who are sick of being called far-right racists need to realise that we’re all sick of them being far-right racists.
What a brilliant example of 2025. Telling someone who lives in London to "google" London, for proof that it is some invented dystopian hellscape. Something that I can disprove by walking to the local bakery, or taking the tube every day, or just... looking out the window.
They are in London. They even shit on the stairs of the trains station. Google it.
The amount of people who hold aphilosophic views, even within elite (or wannabe elite) circles always kinda shocks me. It's like realizing that a bunch of museum goers are secretly philistines.
At what point do normal people on the right simply say "no, enough with this"? At what point is that made clear? We've got to be very clear about what these people are and who these people are.
Steven of course agrees with him…
Gen X aren't defined by being the children of Boomers. We're far more shaped by being the last generation to reach adulthood without the Internet.
Absurd but not particularly surprising to see this sort of apartheid revisionism on Twitter. Only a fifth of the South African population was white so the vast majority were legally, politically and economically excluded from this life.
South Africa in the 80's, the era I was a teenager in. Can you believe it's the same country?
Twitter was launched 19 years ago. What is your favorite tweet ever?
Twitter was launched 19 years ago. What is your favorite tweet ever?
I asked my 15 1/2 year old niece, if there was a General Election next year, who would she vote for. She said Boris Johnson “because his hair makes her laugh”. So switched on. This is going to go great @Keir_Starmer 👍
The media must know this is what happens when you name a school in stories like this.
School at centre of Union flag dress row closes early over 'extremist threats to staff' lbc.co.uk/news/uk/school…
School targeted by 'extremist abuse' closes bbc.in/40ntFs1
16 & 17 year olds are better informed than most fucking boomers. Glad they’re finally getting a say in their own futures.
16 & 17 year olds are better informed than most fucking boomers. Glad they’re finally getting a say in their own futures.
This was the fundamental error of "modern mathematics" in the 1960s—that epistemological hierarchies would be good pedagogical hierarchies.