Edmund Barnett-Ward

@Edmund_B_W

Proud parent to four kids, who all thrived at the brilliant Caversham Primary. I am the director of The Affable Design Company. All opinions are my own.

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Edmund Barnett-Ward@Edmund_B_W22 Sep

@Edmund_B_W @tomhfh Great factual response from a key figure in Ruth Perry’s tragic case. Ofsted is clearly rattled by @NAHTnews hence the attack from one of the Telegraph’s attack mongrels. Ignorant but betraying its master’s noxious scent. 774 views · 38 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Edmund Barnett-Ward@Edmund_B_W22 Sep

Harwood demands robust accountability for schools but treats accountability for Ofsted as surrender. Schools must absorb whatever harm inspection causes; the inspectorate must face no consequences for causing it. Is that really the system everyone else wants? I don’t. 1.7K views · 97 likes · 13 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Edmund Barnett-Ward@Edmund_B_W22 Sep

Thirdly, Harwood’s “shame-geld” analogy is founded on an offensive fiction: teachers are using Ruth’s death to win protection from criticism. They are not. They are demanding that a state process established as a causal factor in a death be made safer, fairer and accountable… 1.4K views · 54 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Edmund Barnett-Ward@Edmund_B_W22 Sep

Nobody argues that threatening suicide should change a school’s grade. Harwood invents that demand, then warns that conceding it invites blackmail. Preventing a state system from causing avoidable harm is not appeasement. It is the elementary duty of those operating it… 1.5K views · 47 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Edmund Barnett-Ward@Edmund_B_W22 Sep

Replacing one overall grade with multiple graded judgements has not weakened inspection. In important respects, it has widened it: more aspects of a school are separately graded, while the same power imbalance, pressure and consequences remain, giving a school more ways to fail… 1.5K views · 56 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Edmund Barnett-Ward@Edmund_B_W22 Sep

That is why NAHT is calling for grading to be paused. It continues to hear accounts of acute stress caused by the current system. This is not a demand to end accountability, but evidence that the reforms have failed to make high-stakes inspection safe… 1.3K views · 53 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Edmund Barnett-Ward@Edmund_B_W22 Sep

Ofsted has not been “ripped up”. Schools are still inspected, graded and publicly reported on, with serious consequences attached to adverse judgements. The presentation has changed; the fundamental high-stakes system has not. Ofsted’s grip on education remains firmly intact… 1.8K views · 59 likes · 5 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Edmund Barnett-Ward@Edmund_B_W22 Sep

Secondly, it is extremely difficult to understand how anyone could believe, as Harwood seems to, that the school accountability system has in any way been weakened by reforms since Ruth Perry’s death. The facts do not bear this out… 1.8K views · 60 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Edmund Barnett-Ward@Edmund_B_W22 Sep

Let’s start with Ruth Perry, whom I knew for 15 years. Her inquest was an independent statutory judicial investigation, not a review or opinion. The coroner heard and tested evidence, then made formal findings of fact to the legal standard of proof… 2K views · 72 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Edmund Barnett-Ward@Edmund_B_W22 Sep

Describing Ruth as “one mentally ill headteacher” callously reverses cause and effect. Ruth had no history of mental illness. The Ofsted inspection caused an acute stress reaction and catastrophic mental-health deterioration. It was established as a causal factor in her death… 1.9K views · 80 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Edmund Barnett-Ward@Edmund_B_W22 Sep

Harwood’s saying: 1. Ruth Perry was “mentally ill”, so her death is not meaningful evidence about inspection. 2. The response produced weakened the system. 3. That these concessions invite other heads to threaten suicide to evade accountability. All three claims are nonsense… 1.9K views · 63 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Edmund Barnett-Ward@Edmund_B_W22 Sep

I don’t generally engage with inflammatory posts on X. It’s the nature of this platform that being shocking is often a deliberate ploy to provoke engagement and feed the poster’s need for attention. However, I’ll make an exception for @tomhfh ’s grotesquely offensive views… https

22K views · 243 likes · 59 reposts · 21 replies Open on X →

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12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views1 743this account4 175median for under 10K

Reach, %32.13%this account250.82%median for under 10K

Engagement, %4.10%this account1.41%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 743	4 175	0.42×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	32.13%	2.5× audience	0.13×
Engagement rate	4.10%	1.41%	2.91×

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Engagement rate per post

1.49%22 Sep

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes82.6%922 in total

Reposts11.3%126 in total

Replies3.4%38 in total

Quotes0.4%4 in total

Bookmarks2.3%26 in total

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