John Simkin

So Boris Johnson’s dad turned 80 two days ago, and he’s at his holiday home in Greece. At the same time, Boris Johnson is on holiday, but no one is saying where he is. Where’s Boris? Greece Is the word. #wheresboris

Gibb seems particularly keen on not listening to teachers or to anyone in teacher training. This is partly why the govt got unstuck over the algorithm and Gibb is in a hole and still digging. ‘Robust’! Yeah right.https://twitter.com/PrimaryIte/status/1296473736212881419 …

Its hard to know where to start with the nonsense Matt Hancock is spouting on @BBCRadio4 Lets start with Dido Harding. Her 'expertise' (?) is 'operational' as MH himself says. She has zero expertise in the two most important issues: scientific knowledge and analytical capacity

BREAKING @GavinWilliamson gives full backing to Ofqual for 1st time, concedes was regulator who decided to abolish system and issue teacher-assessed A levels and GCSEs which he "agreed with"

What people need to realise is that this doesn’t show ‘grade inflation’. It shows that every year our exam system deliberately chooses to reduce the grades of tens of thousands of disadvantaged children in order to maintain a quota of ‘failure’. This year is the *real* picture.https://twitter.com/bbcbreaking/status/1296364501898534912 …

I should say that this appalling reporting comes from across the political spectrum. Examples here from @Independent @BBCNews @DailyMailUK and @MetroUK but could have picked many more.https://twitter.com/apf102/status/1296432444456013825 …

You *achieve* a grade if it is based on a few answers in an exam paper on one day but you don't *achieve* them if they are based on years of work by those who know the pupils best? Riiiiight https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1296367380982005761 …

Nick Gibb says that the algorithm was fine, it was the way it was applied that was the problem. That makes no sense, how else could it have been applied, sideways? It is an obvious lie of Barnard Castle proportions. #R4Today

In the middle of a health pandemic staff are informed via media of PHE being scrapped Underlying agenda is enriching private contractors & privatising the new National Institute for Health Service; a backdoor to continued NHS privatisation Our NHS is not safe under the Tories

I was taken through disciplinary for marking a pupil incorrectly present on a register during a cover lesson and my colleague was sacked as head of Y11 for lower than expected mock exam results, but Gavin can seemingly survive the educational apocalypse of his own creation.

In order to prevent the catastrophic evil of awarding some students higher grades than they deserved, which would lead to the end of civilisation, it was thought better to award them grades lower than they deserved, which would lead to nothing very important.