As schools worry about the downgrading of exam results by Ofqual, Rescue Our School's David Taylor questions the relentless drive to get good grades. “Kids have given up their weekends, we’ve had holiday interventions, 7:30am revision sessions, teachers teaching until…
Rescue Our Schools has been asked to submit evidence to the cross-party education committee of MPs on the impact of covid-19. We would love to hear from as many of our followers as possible your answers to the following key…
Fifteen-year-old Aimee Collins, a state school student from Somerset, wrote this brilliant speech for the Whole Education conference last month. She has given us permission to share it on Rescue Our Schools. Someone once said to me..."You need to fail…
My daughter is a school refuser. She was diagnosed with Autism in March 2018 having suffered a mental breakdown at the end of 2017. She attended an Academy which operated a “Positive Discipline” system and before she was diagnosed she…
South Shields school was and is a brilliant school. That is why many of us, the parents, chose this school. But in 2017 the school was deemed inadequate by Ofsted. Leading up to this, the council brought in a new…
Rescue Our Schools recently received an anonymous message from a parent whose son was about to sit SATS. His grandparent had sadly passed away during SATs week. The family told the school. What did the school say in response? Please…
Unfortunately education issues are not confined to the UK. We are in contact with a wonderful group of parents in Osaka, Japan who are also fighting against the marketisation of their children's education. This is their message to us: I…
The full impact of Suffolk County Council’s new home-school transport policy is becoming clear. As reported in this week’s East Anglian Daily Times, families in my village and many others are being punished by the council for no other reason than living…
Too much change and high levels of pressure can be so detrimental to our children's mental health. So I decided to look into things and see if we had any options. For weeks now I have seen a lot of…
A national TV news programme would like to speak tomorrow to a teacher who’s quit the profession or taken time off due to stress/bullying. They are also on the look out for any footage of bad behaviour in class. If…