Academy conversions slowing down

Fiona Millar's picture
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Interesting post here from John Fowler at the Local Government Information Unit. Suggests that the rate of academy conversations is now slowing down and at the current rate, it would take 30 years for all schools to convert to academy status.
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JimC's picture
Sun, 13/11/2011 - 12:26

"Wasn’t suggesting you are Jim. I just have an interest in all aspects of forum moderation and found your view particularly interesting."

If you are interested I usually stick to the popular forums on TES (opinion and behaviour) as well more specific forums related to my subject and position in my school. Behaviour is clearly and emotive topic and it can get quite heated given the extreme and opposing positions of some of the regulars. Lets say that I think the moderators do a good job in deleting posts in a way that isn't seen as 'taking sides' and if a line of 'argument' is put to pasture by the mods it is usually respected by the regulars.

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sun, 13/11/2011 - 14:45

There seems to have been a great deal of pressure on high achieving schools to convert without consulting Janet. This is combined with huge financial pressures in each case - as to say no to conversion means taking a budget cut which is not compensated by the relative gain from reclaiming LA money.

The conversions have not happened where there has been proper consultation. The head at Cockermouth school very deliberately and systematically took no position, simply repeatedly clearly stating that his job was to manage the school according to the will of the outcome of the consultation.

Guest suggested that the it is the schools which are not consulting which are not converting but the evidence suggests quite the opposite. I suppose guest could argue that the schools which have not yet put there normal business aside to focus on this issue have not yet either consulted or converted. There do seem to be a lot of schools who wish this choice did not exist and that they could just get on with educating kids.

Mike Baker's comment that this is an irreversable decision hasn't been widely publicised.
http://www.mikebakereducation.co.uk/blog/417/schools-worry-about-being-l...

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sun, 13/11/2011 - 14:58

The community seems to operate well provided particular sensitivities aren't touched, so there are big chunks which operate as you would expect most or all of the time. Behaviour clearly benefits from having intelligent professional oversight.

What's your opinion of 'opinion' JimC?

By the way unless your username is misrepresenting you substantially, I would suspect you don't usually post in the biggest forum on TES :-). There's at least one discussion in pregnancy/baby and toddler with over half a million views!

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sun, 13/11/2011 - 15:09

Yikes - this is really helpful JimC - now I've got an idea why you're frustrated.

What I was trying to say was if you disagree with someone or want to criticise them it's really useful to concentrate hard on playing the ball not the man. I'm hanging around on this forum because I really want to talk to people like you but when your criticism it too general and focuses on the person I can't, and that's annoying.

That was all. I wasn't trying to make any bigger point than that. Ad hominem abuse is just the phrase for playing the man not the ball. It's just pointless on forums. People very easily and often come across like they're aspergic on forums because all social cues and body language and context are cut out. So it's a really useful discipline to learn to never attack an individual as it leads to really vibrant, productive and interesting conversations when people don't and it all becomes a bit of a turn off when people do.

The only book I've recommended anyone to read on this forum is this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Education-State-Study-Political-Economy/dp/08659...
which was written by the top international authority on the economics of education. It's a very fine book and it gives clear insights into the specific mistakes Gove and his team are making.

Paul Robinson's picture
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 13:01

Worth noting that Rebecca is banned from the TES Forums and is clearly pursuing an agenda here.

http://www.tes.co.uk/MyPublicProfile.aspx?uc=1369785&event=21

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 13:06

What makes you think I'm banned from TES Paul? What can you think of that I've done that would cause me to be banned? Welcome to the Local Schools Network.


Leonard James's picture
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 13:12

So that isn't your profile then Rebecca?


Paul Robinson's picture
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 13:24

Hello Rebecca. It says you are banned from TES next to your name. I know you were deeply unpopular there but I've no idea what you actually did to provoke the ban. Anyway I don't want to derail the discussion - I just wanted JimC to understand you had baggage on this issue.


Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 14:15

Blimey - yes - I need my eyesight checked! Yes of course it's my profile.

It was working recently when I got my all clear from cervical cancer and went back and posted here: http://community.tes.co.uk/forums/p/459129/6341529.aspx#6341529

but that's my only recent post.

Stranger and stranger the world of TES!

Paul I have two agendas - as always.
One is that I have specific concerns about Gove's policy.
The other is that I have a general interest in discussion forums and other mass online discussion and how it can enhance democracy as exemplified here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55142332/Exploring-Discussion-Forums
and here:
http://cyberrhetoricbyrebeccahanson.blogspot.com/2011/11/mozilla-festiva...
I don't have any other agenda.

What's TES' agenda in banning me and threatening me with immediate legal action if I discuss they way they manage their forum? I have absolutely no idea. Any suggestions welcome. I've never received any coherent response when I've asked about my bannings and other punishments before.

Rebecca (defrosting from Christmas tree collecting in the driving sleet duty).

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 15:55

Hi again Paul,

Just to clarify that I did know my TES account had been banned - I was just curious as to how you knew since I haven't publicised it because of their threats of legal action against me if I write about what happens there. But since they're publicising it clearly they don't mind.

I wrote this email to Bev at TES on 8th November but didn't get a reply. I'm wondering if perhaps the word 'Banned' was added to my account to make my correspondents aware that I couldn't reply to them any more. Or perhaps it was there already. I don't know.
_______________________________________________________________________

Dear Bev,

My account has again been unexpectedly banned.

I am very concerned about this as I have been providing long term mentoring for some of the most vulnerable teachers in the pregnancy/baby and toddler forums. Watching the posts today I can see one of them is in a very bad way and I am worried because my banning makes it impossible for me to contact her through the TES forum to give her a boost as I usually would.

Best regards,

Rebecca Hanson
weebecka
______________________________________________________________________

Anyway Paul I don't feel any real need to discuss this other than to try to give you straight answers to your questions as I have always tried to do. So if you don't reply I will happily just leave the topic.

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 16:06

For some reason the first part of that two part answer is awaiting moderation.


Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 17:22

Part 1 has just gone live. Great prompt work to whoever is moderating! I'm not that quick on my forum! :-)


Paul Robinson's picture
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 19:57

You don't need to justify yourself to me Rebecca but saying "I haven't publicised it because of their threats of legal action against me" is disingenuous. After you expressed surprise about your ban I Googled 'Rebecca Hanson banned'. The first link that comes up is your twitter feed where you are seen to tweet "Have just been banned by TES!".


Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 20:01

Had forgotten about that :-)


Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 20:11

I guess I'll always be a puzzle to you no matter how hard I try not to be Paul. Unless of course you just link up with me on linkedin like most people do - then you get a clearer picture.

Thank you using appropriate language on this forum - that's much appreciated.

Have you located the the other enigmas of the TES forum out here in the rest of cyberspace? They're interesting people. Of course bxxxxxxs sadly is not here may she rest in peace and please let her do so. None of the people who were accused of being her were her of could possible have been her, including me of course.

Take care and good luck to you Paul.

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 22:03

Hey Paul - I'm just wondering - since you consistently managed to keep a better track on what I've posted than I do,

Did you, by any chance, watch the thread I've just done on Israel and Palestine on TED? It was subject to substantial sabotage and sadly disappeared last week just as it was becoming something worthwhile. If you were watching it it emails you each time there's a post but I didn't keep all mine because I didn't realise the thread might disappear......

You and the others on TES sure trained me up well - taking on Israel and Palestine in a 150,000 English language forum is not easy. I'm sure you recognise that some of the stuff in my cyberrhetoric blog was about learning from my mistakes!

Paul Robinson's picture
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 22:17

Sorry but I don't know what TED is. I think you might be mistaking me for someone else as I don't use bad language and I haven't trained you to do anything. God forbid. I'm just a bewildered observer.


Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sun, 04/12/2011 - 08:33

I'm thinking of your post on NCETM Paul - I don't think they've had that many complaints in the rest of the history of the forum.
"TED: Ideas worth spreading" is one of the many excellent discussion groups on Linkedin.com: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/TED-Ideas-Worth-Spreading-138801
Our conversation on Palestine was top of the list for 2 months and ran to well over 1000 posts. We covered just about the whole of the history of Israel and way before. It was interesting and deeply shocking to see what those who are 'inside the mindset of Israel' actually believe.

'bewildered observer' perfectly describes me and many others in our interactions with TES Paul. I found all the deletions and mob attacks deeply disorientating. I know there were a great many things said about me through the PM system through the random contributors who appeared quoting things that were completely untrue that they had clearly been told and had believed. I also knew that only I knew they were untrue - how could anyone else tell?

Here's an attempt at clarifying some of those things. Firstly I have a perfectly normal and successful career. Nothing dubious in it. Secondly I'm a perfectly normal contributor to all other forums - only the discussion on Israel has been anything like being on TES. Thirdly I am not mentally ill. Fourthly I am not out to destroy the TES forum. I just wish there were some of the type of people who represent eduction and go to consultations on there but wherever I ask why they won't do it they say they don't want to deal with the abuse. So I was trying to stick it out to prove that it was possible. But it wasn't. The abuse transferred directly into real life and it's not worth it. On all other abusive threads I find they normalise in the end but that never happened on TES because stuff was deleted and the contributors who were relentlessly posting and circulating lies were not dealt with.

I suppose it also worried my that Gove and his team were explicitly not interacting with the consultative bodies and I wondered if perhaps they were looking at forums like TES.... You have these dominant characters there with some exceptionally odd views which are so close to Gove's.

What else. Yes - I really was attending consultations and was interested in gathering people's views before making my submissions. That was just genuine. And yes my parents' best man was the top international expert in the theories of education and the state, which is why I was so horrified by Gove's policies (because I precisely understood that they would be a hugely damaging and expensive folly). That was true too.

Here's the stuff about Ofsted I wanted to write about on TES but wasn't allowed to:
http://mathseducationandallthat.blogspot.com/2011/08/ofsted-part-1-journ... (and subsequent posts).

Anything else Paul? I'm sorry can't make it clearer for you because it's not clear for me.

Anyway as I said - things are clearer (and much more friendly) on linkedin.com: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/TOP-TRUMPS-State-Education-in-126310.S.69...

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sun, 04/12/2011 - 08:34

the conversation on Palestine was on the top page - not top of the list.


Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sun, 04/12/2011 - 12:09

Should also have explained. The reason why I Tweeted the TES ban was just to have a date record of it. I tend to forget when things happened. I use blogs and Twitter as a kind of external memory. I didn't have any followers on that Twitter account so I didn't think anyone would see it. It just made sense to put it there because it's part of the scenery of trying to understand mass online discussion.


Paul Robinson's picture
Sun, 04/12/2011 - 17:52

Blow me down - what a can of worms! I promise I haven't been on TED or NCETM and don't have any knowledge of the politics of the Middle East. You are mixing me up with someone else.


Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sun, 04/12/2011 - 18:02

Aaaah - I've just looked back at my notes and I'm confusing you with Paul Robson - who was one of my mobbers on TES and pursued me beyond it.

So I was assuming you know about all the other TES pariahs when maybe you don't.

Sorry about all that confusion.

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sun, 04/12/2011 - 18:05

And actually quite a lot of what I've just said actually follows on from conversations I had with autism on TES. Oh dear! I really am going to have to take more care with my reading. As if the subject matter isn't disorientating enough as it is.


Paul Robinson's picture
Sun, 04/12/2011 - 18:13

I'm just a Blackburn Rovers fan who teaches P.E. Wish I had never posted now!


Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sun, 04/12/2011 - 18:15

I'm sorry for you loss Paul.

Now no-one else is going to get that one....... :-)

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sun, 04/12/2011 - 18:16

perhaps even you as I might still have the wrong person.......


Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sun, 04/12/2011 - 18:17

Aaaaagh - no definitely the wrong poster .....


onelittlevictory's picture
Sun, 04/12/2011 - 19:39

I don't comment on these normally


but wtf?

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sun, 04/12/2011 - 19:54

:-) onelittevictory.

Best just forget the rest of this thread.

Assuming you are olv from NCETM and not someone else presenting to be him, can I warmly invite you to join Math, Math Education, Math Culture on linkedin.com? If you want to be anonymous (and there's no need because it's a closed group and there's never been any abuse), you can be, just make up a name and put onelittlevictory as your place of work and I'll spot you and let you in. I promise it's a great place to hang out (you can always leave straight away if you disagree) and the world of maths education makes a whole lot more sense there.

Paul (the real one)'s picture
Mon, 05/12/2011 - 10:23

Hi. Weebecka. No, Paul Robinson is not me.

You've forgotten, btw, when repeating your complaints about the harrassment and lies, that I started archiving all your posts when you started threatening people, the only time I have ever felt the need to do that on TES or anywhere else.

Your posts publicly slandering HMI "JJ", one of which is still on the TES board incidentally, which you claim are fabricated by other people are easily reproduced. (You never did explain how we knew her name if you never posted it).

I still have that archive, and it's been authenticated, so I'd be inclined to be careful about publishing your fantasy view of the world anywhere you see fit.

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Mon, 05/12/2011 - 12:15

Oh hello Paul (the real one).

It's okay - I can see you're the real Paul Robson from you post.

Did it ever occur to you Paul that when I said I'd written to TES to self report naming the HMI (at the time when my own identity and place of work had been published by others along with substantial abusive lies - so I'd lost my bearings as to the standards expected on the forum) and asked them to delete those reference but the moderator had said she couldn't do that - that I was actually telling the truth?

Doesn't it strike you as being a little bit odd that instead of helping me delete that comment it was instead copied and repeated by yourself and others across the forum if you agree with me that it was an inappropriate post?

Perhaps it is the reason why I have been permanently banned from the forum about a year after I wrote it. The TES exec used it to justify the systematic deletion of many hundreds of my posts and my first banning and the time I was put on pre-moderation, none of which were remotely contiguous with it in time, so anything is possible!

I did do my best to explain many things autism, but it was hard. The constant lies/mobbings and deletions and being banned and put on pre-moderation and the stress of seeing the reality that it was impossible to engage in coherent discussion about the very worrying things which were happening in education policy took a toll on me. When what you've written is deleted and people write that you said other things, as was happening, it's deeply disorientating. The way in which the abuse flowed over into real life and the cyberstalking also took a big toll.

No excuses though. When I wrote that night about the horrors of what it's like to work in a school in special measures with an inadequate HMI I shouldn't have named that HMI. That was a mistake. The fact that both I and my school had been named that day doesn't make it okay.

By the way if you're invovled in or know the people who are involved in the stalking of any of the other TES pariahs, please could you stop posting that people are dead on their Wikis? It's clearly very unpleasant for their families. Thanks. And do you think you could stop making it obvious who the HMI is please? Their Ofsted reports for my school are now deleted so it is not obvious now unless you make it so. Please also go to the post on the TES site that you know of and report it for deletion too. You already have the evidence you want. It was 4 years ago that they cause the problems they did. I'm sure they've learned a lot since then and I have not and never have had any desire for my criticism of Ofsted to be personal. I don't think the effects of that HMI's interaction with my school would been serious had the systems within which they were acting been adequate.

Inkivaari's picture
Mon, 05/12/2011 - 12:47

Perhaps so many people felt the need to repeat your remarks because you repeatedly denied having made them and accused others of lying, stalking and putting words into your mouth. Perhaps if you had been truthful on that forum and had not threatened other posters, they would not have felt the need to challenge you and repeat the remarks you made. Paul has the archives so I'm sure he'll be able to shed some light on the matter.


Rebecca Hanson's picture
Mon, 05/12/2011 - 15:20

Inky, you too? I didn't expect to see you here.

Well as I remember it I looked for the posts about the HMI to report them individually which was what I was told I had to do and couldn't find them, partly because I was unfamiliar with the structure of the forum and partly because they just didn't show up when I searched which was weird.

So I asked the posters who were copying them and writing about them to link to show me where they were which they wouldn't do. And then I wrote about how the whole situation was making me disoriented so that I was beginning to lose track about what was going on in this matter. Then someone did link me to a post which enabled me to give a full and coherent apology for the mistake and for any confusion and misrepresentation on my part. The apology kept getting deleted so I posted it several times in different places.

I don't think I ever categorically denied having made the remarks. I think I wondered outloud if I had in the general context of not knowing. But I could be wrong and doubtless Paul Robson (no in) will now demonstrate what I wrote to prove that your claim true Inkivaari - that I repeatedly denied having made them.

Off you go Paul.... and, as I said, please be respectful for the identoty of the HMI.

Inkivaari, others wrote that I was not a teacher, or that I was a failed teacher who had never stuck a job, or that I was mentally ill or lying and so on. These things were not true which is what I said. I don't remember really accusing people of lying - I just pointed out that various things written about me were not true.

I was systematically stalked and mobbed around the forum and beyond. I don't remember ever threatening other posters - what on earth makes you say that I did?

Inkivaari's picture
Mon, 05/12/2011 - 15:31

I'm not the only one who says that you did. I believe Paul said that he started to archive your posts when you began to make threats to other posters. I certainly saw some threats on there from you towards other posters; "it wouldn't be too hard to find put who you are" could certainly be read as a threat. I am aware of some things which have taken place off the forum, and I don't think that you're being entirely truthful when you portray yourself as a victim.
No doubt people will make up their own minds.

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Mon, 05/12/2011 - 16:14

hmmm yes, I suppose many things that weren't threats could be taken as being threats if you were obsessed with taking them as being such. Is this the old domestic abuse issue Inky? If I felt threatened then you were abusing me?

Now I'm mystified by a lot of what's taken place off the forum, so if you'd like to enlighten me I'd be delighted. For my part I wrote to senior management at TES to ask to talk about what was going on and found the response exceptionally odd, inappropriate and threatening.

I also made sure my MP and others involved with Education watched in real time to see the way in specific posts and topics were being deleted to ensure that MPs were aware that there were problems with the balance of views being portrayed on the forum. It seemed necessary because, as I said, government policy at that time was totally (and deliberately) disconnected from the advisory bodies and much more in tune with the views expressed on the TES forum. I totally disagree with the conservative policy of labelling all the representative and expert bodies as being 'self interested' and 'responsible for the current disastrous state of education' and systematically ignoring them. So getting people in government to watch the TES deletions in action was more about trying to get them to wake up to the idea the proper consultation was important than about TES. I don't know if you were aware of how easy it was to predict which topics would be deleted Inkivaari. I don't remember you ever being involved in the relevant parts of the forum for that.

So what do you know about things which have taken place off the forum? I'm curious.

Meanwhile Paul Robson (no in). I don't suppose you captured that thread on Israel on TED by any chance did you? Now that really would be useful.

Inkivaari's picture
Mon, 05/12/2011 - 16:26

What would be the point of saying something like "it wouldn't be too difficult to find pit who you are", unless it was to threaten another poster that you would find their identity and use that information? I don't see how anyone could read that in a "non threatening" way. I think you are being disingenuous, or downright dishonest. Given your previous history, I can't say I'm surprised.
Perhaps you might want to consider why your view of events differs entirely from everyone else's? Maybe you might want to Consider why your mp has failed to take up your cause?

Paul (the real one)'s picture
Mon, 05/12/2011 - 18:06

"Did it ever occur to you Paul that when I said I’d written to TES to self report naming the HMI"

You repeatedly claimed you didn't, even when faced with times and contents of the posting you made. You had those posts removed yourself because you couldn't handle the evidence of your having posted them.

"(at the time when my own identity and place of work had been published by others"

So why did you publish my name then ? Not that I'm bothered.

"Doesn’t it strike you as being a little bit odd that instead of helping me delete that comment it was instead copied and repeated by yourself and others across the forum if you agree with me that it was an inappropriate post?"

It was "copied and repeated" because you repeatedly said you didn't do it. Hence copying those posts showed you to be dishonest or just plain wierd. Like (for example) saying the views of a well respected and experienced TES poster didn't count because she was Scottish.

"Perhaps it is the reason why I have been permanently banned from the forum about a year after I wrote it. The TES exec used it to justify the systematic deletion of many hundreds of my posts and my first banning and the time I was put on pre-moderation"

Entirely sensibly, as the HMI would have been able to sue both you and the Times Educational Supplement. I could sue you and the LocalSchoolsNetwork. I won't sue the LocalSchoolsNetwork however.

Much of the removal however, was nothing to do with your slandering the HMI, it was posts that contradicted what you stated earlier, most obviously that you denied slandering the HMI in the first place.

"I did do my best to explain many things autism, but it was hard. The constant lies/mobbings and deletions and being banned and put on pre-moderation and the stress of seeing the reality that it was impossible to engage in coherent discussion"

Odd then, that the mass deletions began when you arrived, stopped when you stopped posting, and we have been happily squabbling ever since. No-one else has this problem other than you. (Note: she calls me "autism" here because my TES Nickname is autismuk).

"No excuses though. When I wrote that night about the horrors of what it’s like to work in a school in special measures with an inadequate HMI I shouldn’t have named that HMI. That was a mistake. The fact that both I and my school had been named that day doesn’t make it okay."

It is actually understandable. What annoyed people was lying about it (as you weren't up front about your forum presentation that didn't help). People don't like being told they are liars, even by you.

It did help that every single poster called you on those lies. Doubtless you think this is because we "ganged up" on you. It doesn't seem to occur to you that it is possible that you might simply not have told the truth.

Even now, you aren't consistent about whether you named the HMI or someone else did. You swore blind at the time it wasn't you, now you are admitting it ?

"By the way if you’re invovled in or know the people who are involved in the stalking of any of the other TES pariahs, please could you stop posting that people are dead on their Wikis? It’s clearly very unpleasant for their families."

Yes, I agree stalking is really bad. Perhaps you should stop doing it.

"And do you think you could stop making it obvious who the HMI is please? Their Ofsted reports for my school are now deleted so it is not obvious now unless you make it so"

Only if there is one HMI with those initials. Actually, one of your posts is still on there, I keep meaning to suggest to the mods they remove it.

"I’m sure they’ve learned a lot since then and I have not and never have had any desire for my criticism of Ofsted to be personal."

All your criticism was personal ; "incompetent" was the nicest thing you said, you also posted that it was deliberate nastiness on her part, and all kinds of things she would be fully justified in taking action about, even if only complaining to the TES about it.

Maybe I should send HMI all the posts you publicly made about her. There were plenty of them.

Janet Downs's picture
Mon, 05/12/2011 - 18:17

This thread is now nothing to do with the slowing down of academy conversions. LSN is a forum for people who wish to discuss educational issues. Anything else detracts from this.


Paul (the real one)'s picture
Mon, 05/12/2011 - 18:28

This is common practice for any thread which Ms Hanson contributes to ; it becomes a personal vendetta against the hated HMI, the hated TES, everyone in fact.

There are huge view variances on TES ; politically, for example from far left to far right. But nobody other than her has had these problems.

Paul (the real one)'s picture
Mon, 05/12/2011 - 18:23

"Now I’m mystified by a lot of what’s taken place off the forum, so if you’d like to enlighten me I’d be delighted. For my part I wrote to senior management at TES to ask to talk about what was going on and found the response exceptionally odd, inappropriate and threatening. "

That's because they have access to your TES posts, the PMs you sent to people complaining/threatening etc. and they know of your deletion requests. They probably think you are barking, but they know you are legally dangerous. I was amazed they let you back on after you starting slandering HMIs by name.

"Now I’m mystified by a lot of what’s taken place off the forum, so if you’d like to enlighten me I’d be delighted"

You know exactly what Inkivaari means, and so do I.

"disconnected from the advisory bodies and much more in tune with the views expressed on the TES forum"

You think I'm a Gove plant, apparently. Amusingly you thought seren was a Gove plant as well, which considering she is way out to the left was funny. I'm sure I'll get the sack now, after having described one of his latest ideas as "f--- stupid".

The mass deletions started when you arrived and stopped when you left. There are still occasional ones, but there is certainly no censoring of anti Gove views. In fact most of the Gove views are critical, even from Tories like me.

Paul Robinson's picture
Mon, 05/12/2011 - 18:36

Oh dear. When I suggested Rebecca was "deeply unpopular", I clearly failed to fully capture the zeitgeist.

If you added my name to your revenge book, could you cross it out please Rebecca? I'm dialling out of this thread with immediate effect.

Rebecca Hanson's picture
Mon, 05/12/2011 - 21:18

Agreed. This is not constructive. I will not contribute further to this thread.


Rebecca Hanson's picture
Sat, 12/01/2013 - 20:29

I'm less than delighted to hear the news that a photo of my with my daughter which I use on a small discussion forum for an organisation where most people have met my daughter has been plastered all over the TES forum.

I'm also now impressed by the continued unpleasant comments about me on that site.

Please can those TES posters who have some sense of personal balance report such issues to the moderators as I can't due to being banned. With regard to the discussions about the way I appeared on that forum please can I point out again that impression was created by the fact that my posts were being systematically and prolifically deleted and my being repeatedly banned without reason, making it impossible for regular posters to interact with me. It's natural for people to form weird impressions of each other on forums and it's also natural for those impressions to be overcome and become more realistic over time but this process is prevented if there are systematic deletions and bannings.

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