Rachel Rooney trained and worked as a teacher of Special Needs for many years before re-discovering her love of writing poetry. She taught for many years across a range of school settings and has particular interest and experience working with pupils with ASC (Autism). She is now an award-winning children’s poet and picture book writer. …
Letter to the London School of Economics
We were recently alerted to an alarming paper presented at a conference held at the London School of Economics (LSE), in which a student was applauded for presenting a violent fantasy about harming gender critical women. The full context of this paper are outlined by the campaign group Sex Matters which was co-founded by Maya …
FET 50 Year Anniversary
It was great to see so many of our supporters at our conference at the RAF Club in London on Saturday 3rd July and to be able to chat to people in person after so many months of restrictions! Our conference began with an introduction from our Chair of Trustees, Arthur Cornell, who spoke about …
Letter to the Education Secretary about inappropriate materials used in schools
Dear Gavin Williamson, We are contacting you to express our grave concern about some of the materials being promoted by the Department for Education for use in schools. Of particular concern is a tweet issued on the Department’s Twitter page on 21 June endorsing the work of an organization called Just Like Us. Among the …
White privilege and critical race theory in schools: what’s the problem?
Today on social media we shared the Education Committee’s report “The forgotten: how White working-class pupils have been let down, and how to change it.” The report shows how White British pupils eligible for free school meals persistently underperform compared with peers in other ethnic groups, from early years through to higher education. The statistics …