COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS
- Zero Business Rates for schools and colleges.
TEACHERS
- 18 per cent increase of teachers' pay.
- 18 months maternity pay for women.
- 3 months paternity pay for men.
- All teaching staff to be direct employed by councils. No outsourcing, no agencies.
- All teaching assistants and learning support staff to be direct employed by councils. No outsourcing, no agencies.
- No Cover Supervisors, who are neither teachers nor support staff.
TEACHERS' WORKING HOURS
- Reduce teachers’ working hours by eleven hours per week.
- End homework.
- Teachers should not be directed or required by their employer to undertake any work in the evenings or at weekends, Bank Holidays or during school holidays.
- Get Directed Time Calendar in June / July before start of academic year, setting out the number of hours you can be directed to work by your employer, and the tasks you can be asked to undertake during that time, which should not exceed 1,265 hours per academic year (pro rata for teachers working part time).
- Teachers and headteachers to have a lunch break of at least 30 minutes during the working day, where not undertake any other duties, including supervising pupils.
- End exams except once in high schools for O Levels, BTEC and other vocational exams.
- Primary Schools only Cambridge University English Proficiency exams. No foreign language classes other than English as a Foreign Language before join the English Proficiency exam classes.
Background:
..."TUC analysis ...shows that the value of teachers pay has been cut by £172 per week (18%) between 2010 and 2023."...
..."The average amount of unpaid overtime by teachers is 11 hours per week"...
..."TUC analysis for Work Your Proper Hours Day (23 February 2024) found that ... "40% of teachers do unpaid overtime on a regular basis, compared to 13% of workers across the economy."...
Source: NASUWT trade union
TEACHERS' PENSION SCHEME
- Teachers pensions scheme to revert to prior better system, if your works pension lowered under the awful fire and rehire to change contract. Fire and rehire to be abolished.
QUALIFICATIONS
- All further education teaching staff for vocational training to have a teaching qualification within 5 years.
- No need for teaching qualification for social interest courses / hobby etc.
EDUCATION SERVICE
- Create public funded National Education Service (NES) for England.
- Have the same for Wales.
- Have the same for The Shetland & The Orkneys.
- Free cradle to adulthood learning, ie kindergarten onwards.
- Free kindergarten from 9 months old baby to school age. (Keeping up with Tories bringing that in 2025 - March 15 2023 Budget).
- Resurrect the Sure Start centres for vulnerable and hard-to-reach parents.
FREE SCHOOL SWIMMING CLASSES
- Bring back free mandatory swimming lessons, including in kindergartens from
age 1 to 4 years of age. - According to the World Health Organization, drowning is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide, accounting for 7% of all injury-related deaths (WHO). In addition, research shows that participation in formal swimming lessons can reduce the risk of drowning among children aged 1-4 years (CDC).
HELP FOR PUPILS
- Reduce class sizes to 20 for infants and primary school children.
- Work towards reduce class sizes to 20 for high school children.
- Free breakfast and lunch school meals in state schools, paid for by removing VAT exemption on private school fees and charging 33.3 per cent VAT on most expensive public school fees.
- Free vocational full-time training in college.
- Free vocational courses in services jobs as well as manufacturing.
- NHS mental health for schools-based counselling for children in all schools.
- Have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) schools for specific disabilities. With specialist teachers and non-teaching staff, to support staff, children and children’s parents.
- Fully fund further education colleges, with free, lifelong education that enables you to up-skill or retrain at any point in life. Including English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) using Cambridge Proficiency exams with elocution (pronunciation in lessons and exams).
- Build new public funded technical colleges.
TRADE UNION HISTORY CLASSES
IN HIGH SCHOOLS
- Reverse cuts to Unionlearn.
- Teach trade union history in schools and business college courses, and how hard we had to fight for their existence and what they did for us in work.
SCHOOL CANTEENS
- Source food from local farms.
- Free breakfasts and lunches in state schools.
RIGHT TO GO TO TOILET FOR STUDENTS
- Children to have right to go to the toilet (telling teacher where gone first) during class.
- And right to go to toilet between classes. Single cubicle toilets in a long row, unisex, with own sink in each. Only School Nurse with pass key in case of first aid need.
STUDENTS AND MONEY
- Write off outstanding university student debt for UK citizens.
- (BACKGROUND -
Currently, students do not have to start paying back their loans until they earn £27,295 but this will be lowered for those starting courses in
September 2023 to £25,000.
- Student loan interest rates
- Student loan interest rates will more than double from September 2022 -
from 4.5% to 12% for higher earners, and from 1% to 9% for lower earners.
- Students will also be paying off their loans for longer and could still be forking out for their courses 40 years after graduating.
Under the current system,
loans are written off after 30 years.
- Abolish university tuition fees for citizens.
- Return university student maintenance grants for citizens.
- Cap student accommodation rents for citizens and non-citizens.
- Restore Education Maintenance Allowance for further education technical colleges course citizen students, for 16 to 18 year olds of lower and middle income parents
ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES
- To change to teach all kids from first exam of Cambridge English Proficiency exams, and instead of 6 exams, stretch it across 12 exams for them. To upgrade literacy. Modern version of singalong alphabet.
- Lessons in reading out loud, after being read stories in Standard English not local British and English dialects. Helps with vocabulary. Teacher ensuring discipline against bullying from the children against those who read out less well than others, as didn’t know how to pronounce the word. Syllabalise the words to ensure pronunciation. English teachers to also be taught how to teach elocution / syllabalising the words.
- Primary Schools only Cambridge University English Proficiency exams. No foreign language classes other than English as a Foreign Language before join the English Proficiency exam classes.
EMERGENCY ENGLISH LITERACY CLASSES FROM FOLLOWING TERM FOR ONE YEAR, AFTER ELECTION WIN
- Separate English Literacy classes for white British boys from the white British girls (who will be with the other races).
- Black Caribbean boys separate English literacy classes.
SAVING FUNDING IN SCHOOLS
- Not provide lessons in foreign languages in state schools. Saving money towards arts and music classes.
- Not provide sex education classes in state schools. Saving money towards high school lessons for boys and girls in same classroom to recognise swiftly in relationship the Control Freak so can get away before violence.
LANGUAGE EXAMS OF MIGRANT CHILDREN
- Teach the original language spoken at home of migrant children, to O and A level exam level in state schools. As they also have the culture, useful in doing business when adults with that country of their ethnicity / language / culture. Between 3pm and 6pm on school premises. Including creative writing, poetry, song lyric writing and music lessons of singing and instrument playing of their cultural music.
UK NATION LANGUAGES - Compulsory for local children to learn Scottish, Welsh, and Cornish Celt.
ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE FOR NEW MIGRANTS
- Have separate ESOL English classes for
non-British children in state schools and adults in further education, with teachers of their own culture / language migrants here for generations teaching elocution (how to pronounce English) and British culture. This is reverse of what done during British Empire, when the colonial officer had this kind of training before going out to a colony (but the local big-wig did the direct ruling of local people). Still wrong, we know, to be colonial. The children can then ask a question about English language to a teacher who understands their language.
- This is how the world out there prevents the stress injury of Culture Shock to foreign cultures.
- ESOL English classes for adults to include how to speak the local English dialect, as well as standard English, which standard pronunciation is a world communication tool between all language speakers.
ARITHMETIC
- Put Algebra into science classes only.
- Modern version of singalong way to learn times tables.
- Re-learn how to do mental arithmetic, to make change for cash for such jobs as stallholders and your own hot potato, chestnut or pies and burger van.
- Course towards Arithmetic exam for life skills (how much curtain need, carpet, wood laminate flooring, tins of paint, plaster and so on and so forth), basic book-keeping for budgeting and understanding APR (interest) and percentages and the like.
FREE MUSIC LESSONS
- Free classes in playing music (free musical instruments provided whilst in school building), singing and song writing, choirs, drama and creative writing, including poetry, theatre playwriting, film scripts and song lyrics.
- Free English Morris Men / Women folk dance classes in England schools.
TEACH GIRLS COMPUTING
AS WOMEN WILL GET DIRECT EMPLOYMENT TO MAKE SOFTWARE HEED WOMEN'S REQUIREMENTS
- Girls equally taught computer software programming.
WORKING CLASS SOCIAL HISTORY
- Teach local working-class social history and geography in state schools.
- Leaving aristocracy and royal history to private Public Schools.
TEACH WOMEN'S HISTORY
- Teach women’s history (her-story), of the real story of working class (Engels etc) including Suffragists / Suffragettes and Dagenham women’s strike (1968) to equal pay to men. High school girls textbook - Invisible Women, author Caroline Criado-Perez.
- Teach 20th century history behind misery and increase of early death caused to 1950s ladies, by women’s pension age rise from 2011 (Grey Swans, Modern Day Suffragettes and We Paid in, You Pay Out mini books).
COLONIAL HISTORY
- Teach Black Lives Matter British / British empire colonial history.
TEACH WILDFLOWER GARDENING
- Teach organic wildflower gardening, to help save the bees, bumblebees and butterflies in school gardens. Hayfever / asthma sufferers exempted.
ARTS FUNDING
- Grant government funding for community choirs and arts and writing groups.
- Grant government arts funding for English Morris Men / Women folk dance groups. Stop the prejudice against Morris Dance Groups and call it English national folk identity dancing as valid as Scottish dancing.
RETURN OF SCHOOL NURSE
- School budgets to include School Nurse to give medicines for known health problems to school children (example, asthma attack).
- School Nurse to check for nits in head hair. NHS free prescription for treatment shampoo.
- School Nurse to provide first aid to pupils and staff.
MOBILE PHONES
- Switch off mobile phones and put into visible secure storage during class.
SCHOOL BULLYING
- Bullying is not part of normal children’s horse play. Discipline bullies and protect victims.
- Once bullies are recognised, put extra supervision on them in school playground.
- High School pupils who are bullies to be focused on careers of lone working and not working in teams or management.
- Sexist bullying to be re-educated for boys.
- Security guards in high schools, with knife monitors on school gates. Ensure illicit drugs are not sold at school gates or on school property (not only to forestall drugs being bought, but also to prevent crime, as muggers prey on prostitutes and drug sellers).
- NHS clinics for treatment of victims of school bullying, which is a group of stress symptoms well documented.
- Separate NHS workplace bullying clinics for adult victims.
TRIGGER WARNING OF
DISTRESSING CONTENT
PREVENTION OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (UK LAW IS CHILD ABUSE)
FGM comprises all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs (clitoris and Labia in part or whole).
- Educate girls against FGM in separate classes from cultures of migrants where this is done.
- Female school nurses to undertake check to ensure girls do not suffer female genital mutilation (as said by Muslim woman who educate on the issue, for example, is not a requirement of Islam religion).
- Not to be intimidated against calling FGM blasphemy, as the practice predates Islam and Christianity and so is pagan. There is no requirement for ethnic identity for FGM.
- Support the work of Forced Marriage Unit, which can include child brides, who have to suffer FGM before marriage.
BACKGROUND TO FGM
*Ismail Yahya, a former Islamic jurist in the east coast state of Terengganu in Malaysia, questioned the practice of FGM as there are no religious texts to support female circumcision. A paper by Isa et al., (1999) titled, ‘The practice of female circumcision among Muslims in Kelantan.’ – another east coast state in Malaysia, suggested that “there is evidence that in at least some parts of the Muslim world, FGM is a practice of culture, not of religion, because it was practised even before Islamisation took place.”
No health benefits
The World Health Organisation has stated that FGM carries no health benefits and is harmful to females.
Immediate complications can include severe pain (as surgery done without pain relief), excessive bleeding, genital tissue swelling, urinary problems, infections and even death.
FGM also comes with long term effects such as menstrual problems, sexual problems, increased risk of childbirth complications and psychological problems.
According to media reports, the practice of FGM has decreased in recent years as the UN strives for a total elimination of FGM by 2030, following the spirit of Sustainable Development Goal 5.