Andrew Old ✓

@oldandrewuk · joined 19 Dec 2009

Teacher. Any attempt to suggest that the word battleground in my blog title refers to my classroom or my students indicates you have lost the argument.

19 689Followers

1 368Following

255 810Posts total

96.6KViews on collected posts

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Andrew Old ✓@oldandrewuk19 Sep

Wait until she finds out about Bart Simpson. 3.3K views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Andrew Old ✓@oldandrewuk19 Sep

Tom Bennett's "conduct" here was disagreeing with a hatchet job on a school. I'm not shocked that his critics sought to silence him. I am shocked at the hypocrisy. If the DFE behaviour advisor is not allowed to advocate *for* discipline in schools, then why should safeguarding 6.8K views · 19 likes · 3 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Andrew Old ✓@oldandrewuk19 Sep

No one understands how they brainwash us when young. 👇 That’s why schools and parenting matter. Children make up 100% of the future. THIS 👇 is the future. 😳😵‍💫 50.4K views · 797 likes · 84 reposts · 44 replies Open on X →

Andrew Old ✓@oldandrewuk19 Sep

This stuff annoys me too. The issue here is not that black kids somehow deserve to be excluded at a higher rate. The issue is that they are NOT excluded at a higher rate. 1.8K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Andrew Old ✓@oldandrewuk19 Sep

The exclusion rate for black pupils is now far lower than for white British pupils. So much so that the DfE stopped publishing it. 12.6K views · 50 likes · 5 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Andrew Old ✓@oldandrewuk18 Sep

@educationgovuk @LucyMPowell I agree with everything she said but encourage her to reflect on the reality of where we are. Having read the CSPR into MVPA, and seen what can happen when a minority of children within a high-performing school feel isolated, I think it is important t 11.3K views · 50 likes · 14 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Andrew Old ✓@oldandrewuk8 Mar

Blog post for Sunday 8 March 2026. Deskilling Teachers Part 2 https://t.co/1M21bfO4gf https://t.co/hwBRc8xCce

10.5K views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

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6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views9 054this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %45.99%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.52%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	9 054	924	9.80×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	45.99%	3.62%	12.7×
Engagement rate	0.52%	1.52%	0.34×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

10.5K8 Mar

11.3K18 Sep

12.6K19 Sep

1.8K

50.4K

6.8K

3.3K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.11%8 Mar

0.65%18 Sep

0.47%19 Sep

0.51%

1.84%

0.40%

0.52%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes80.5%944 in total

Reposts9.2%108 in total

Replies5.2%61 in total

Quotes1.0%12 in total

Bookmarks4.0%47 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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