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Day two of applying to become Education Secretary every day until the DfE get back to me. Now, I haven't heard anything yet, which is fine. I guess they're just probably cross-checking my policies. So we're going to keep going. With policy seven, Ofsted must inspect workload. If Ofsted are inspecting schools, they must also inspect how many unpaid hours staff are working.

A school will only be able to get outstanding or exemplary if it can achieve it without its teachers working every hour God sends. And if it turns out no one ever gets exemplary that way, well, what does that say about the system then? Policy 8, parent email cooling off period. All parent emails after 7pm will automatically bounce back.

Then, 24 hours later, the parent will receive a gentle reminder asking something like, would you still like to send this email? Because I think a lot of conflict would be avoided if everyone had just had one sleep and a good breakfast before pressing send. Policy 9, PPA doubled immediately. PPA will initially increase from 10 to 20 Initially we work on more But trying to plan mark assess adapt email print chase phone home fully informed update provision maps prepare resources and remember World Book Day in about two and a half hours once a week

Yeah, that's not effective workload management. Policy 10, no more Marta culture. Teachers will no longer be praised for burning out. She's always here late is not a compliment. He never takes a day off is not inspirational. It's a safeguarding concern for the adult. Policy 11, glue stick funding. Glue sticks will be treated as national infrastructure.

Every class will get enough glue sticks to last an entire year. I don't care how we fund it. Tax billionaires, tax Starbucks, tax people who own yachts. I'm not an economist. Just get the glue sticks. And finally for today, policy 12 is school visit realism. So when MPs or ministers or the media visit a school,