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Scottish Union for Education (SUE) retweeted
‘Incumbent on us all to make changes and improve diversity’?? How about @CaiusCollege, respect individual conscience and judgment? And do the job you have traditional done and for which you are paid? Hint: it doesn’t include EDI indoctrination. Have you learned nothing from Jason Arday’s case? FYI @SpeechUnion @ScotUnionEd
Parents are not an inconvenience to be managed.
If schools introduce highly contested teaching on sex and gender, parental concerns should be answered openly and seriously — not dismissed, pathologised or treated as an obstacle.
Trust has to be earned.
Find out how Orkney Islands Council Education Department 'works' with parents.
Read the full article here: bit.ly/sue171lb
Should every Scottish child learn about the Scottish Enlightenment?
It sounds like a fairly straightforward question.
But it opens up a much bigger argument about what a curriculum is actually for.
Teacher autonomy matters.
But so does a child's entitlement to knowledge.
Perhaps the real question is not:
prescription OR autonomy?
But:
What knowledge is important enough that every child should encounter it — while leaving teachers freedom over how they teach it?
Graeme Arnott develops the argument further in this week's SUE, asking whether apparent curriculum neutrality can itself conceal important choices about knowledge and inheritance.
Read the full article here: bit.ly/sue171ga
Scottish Union for Education (SUE) retweeted
Open to anyone who has looked for teaching work in Scotland since August 2024: supply, temporary, permanent, or now outside teaching.
Findings go to MSPs, the Scottish Parliament, councils and the media.
Please share with colleagues and your staffroom group chat. #ScottishTeachers #SupplyTeacher
Scottish Union for Education (SUE) retweeted
"Physics teachers don’t just teach a subject; they open pupils’ eyes to the wonders of the world & possibilities of the future. They are unlocking the potential of the next generation of Scottish science innovators"
@stuartphysics on physics teacher crisis
enlighten.scot/scotlands-phy…
When schools introduce partisan teaching on subjects that are deeply contested outside the classroom, what should meaningful parental involvement look like?
Information?
Consultation?
A right to object?
A right to withdraw?
Or should decisions about curriculum ultimately remain with schools and education authorities?
Scotland produced Hume, Smith, Black, Hutton and an intellectual movement that helped shape the modern world.
Yet the Scottish Enlightenment is not something every Scottish pupil is guaranteed to study.
What knowledge should be part of the common inheritance of every child educated in Scotland?
Who decides what Scottish children should know?
This week in SUE: a neglected national inheritance, parents pushing back, and schools increasingly shaped by therapeutic culture.
What is education actually for?
bit.ly/sue171news
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How much should parents know about what their children are being taught?
Scotland's LGBT-inclusive education policy provides an interesting test of that principle.
Schools inevitably teach subjects on which adults disagree.
The answer to disagreement shouldn't be less parental scrutiny.
It should be confidence that schools can explain what they teach, why they teach it and how they ensure contentious questions are handled appropriately.
Dr Jenny Cunningham sets out a much more critical argument about Scotland's approach, TIE and transgender issues in this week's SUE.
Whatever your view, these are questions worth discussing rather than avoiding.
Link here: bit.ly/sue170jc
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