Archive for the ‘Equality’ Category
Make a joyful noise…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: January 9, 2012
- In: capacity-building | change | Equality | Family | Inclusion | Leadership | Pastoral care | Personal | PLN
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It’s been a wonderful weekend. On Friday, the feast of the Epiphany, our friend Chucks was ordained priest at our church, St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow. He was ordained by the Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, the Right Revd. Dr Gregor Duncan. And on Sunday, Fr Chucks celebrated his first Holy Communion and Evensong as a [...]
Two Lesbians Raised A Baby And This Is What They Got
Posted by: mimanifesto on: December 3, 2011
- In: Equality | Family | homophobia | LGBT | marriage equality
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Via Scoop.it – Marriage Equality in ScotlandWhat’s the reason for opposing this again?Via front.moveon.org
What are they really afraid of ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: December 1, 2011
- In: Equality | Uncategorized
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“With all the problems currently facing the world, people will struggle to understand why organisations like the Catholic Church are wasting so much money and energy on this homophobic campaign.” Well said Tom French, from the Equality network, in response to the unholy alliance between Keith O’Brien, Bashir Mann, and Gordon Wilson of Solas on [...]
A police state?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 2, 2011
- In: Equality | Leadership | Racism
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This was the scene outside my office on Monday of this week. Now just to explain a little, my window looks out onto St Andrew’s Street and directly opposite is the Glasgow JP court. You can see a grey car in the picture. It was parked in the cycle lane over double yellow lines. In [...]
Sometimes, you just have to blog…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 12, 2011
- In: change | Equality | homophobia | LGBT | Same sex marriage
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This is one of those posts that you just have to write. You know the ones. When a subject or issue really important to you and close to your heart comes along. For me, its usually something to do with education, but this post strays away from that a little although connected indirectly. To me [...]
Scottish Autism
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 6, 2011
We had a lovely chat with the ladies from Scottish Autism ( used to be the Scottish Autistic Society, I think) yesterday afternoon in the showroom They talked about their plans for the future and the services they provide to people on the Autistic spectrum and their families and friends, and the tough times ahead [...]
Emotional education and society..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 1, 2011
Judging by what we read in the papers at the moment, Scotland is not a great place to be growing up in at the moment. Drinking, drugs, and dangerous sexual activity are endemic in our society. Knife and gun crime is the norm amongst many children who roam the streets in feral gangs without a [...]
Native linguists removed from schools..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 19, 2011
- In: Inclusion | Literacy | Leadership | Equality | change | capacity-building | future of education
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An excellent piece from Tom Shields in today’s Herald newspaper. He takes a rather witty and beautifully written series of pot-shots at Glasgow City Council Education dept for removing all foreign language assistants from their schools by remembering, somewhat fondly, his own experiences of the benefits of language assistants. The enormous benefits of having native [...]
What’s the problem with faith ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 15, 2011
- In: change | Equality | homophobia | LGBT | Same sex marriage
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Just what is it with religion and homosexuality at the moment ? Ever since Peter and Hazel-Mary Bull lost their discrimination court case and rolled out their religion as a justification for their bigotry, the television and radio waves have been hot with news reports and discussion shows trying to analyse the wrongs and rights [...]
Council in crisis- Efficiency savings mean Autism services may suffer…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 18, 2010
Lots of speculation in the press recently about impending cuts in local government spending. Education authorities are facing a call to merge so classrooms may be spared the worst of the cuts in public spending. The education forums are also getting in on the act. The following is paraphrased from a comment which appeared a [...]
On society, inclusion, and evolving attitudes….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 15, 2009
- In: Equality | homophobia | Inclusion
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I think we’d all agree that society (whatever definition one gives to this term) evolves over time. Things don’t remain static and with this change, beliefs and values also evolve. I’ve certainly seen the way society treats minority groups change, and very much for the better, over the past thirty years or so. It would [...]
Political integrity ? – it’s not all bad news if we look back…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 7, 2009
- In: Equality | homophobia
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All the recent negative publicity about the dubious integrity of our politicians has really got me thinking, as I guess it has everybody else, about our political system and the type of people it attracts, as well as the type of behaviour it appears to encourage in our elected members. And I’ve had a lot [...]
Self-evaluation – a wider purpose ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 4, 2009
- In: Equality | homophobia | Inclusion | Inspection | Leadership | LTS | Quality assurance
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There’s a lot of this going on all over the country at the moment. The new HMIE-lite inspection regime relies upon schools undertaking rigorous internal quality assurance where the concept of using self-evaluation to inform and enhance both the learning and teaching and just as importantly the life and ethos of a school. I blogged [...]
Remember them…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 11, 2008
We had a two minute silence in school today to mark the Armistice – and apart from the usual idiots, all the kids were keen to pay their respects to those who fell in the two world wars and other conflicts that have taken place since. Many asked questions about why those wars happened and [...]
Scotland the brave….and the pragmatic!
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 23, 2008
- In: Equality | homophobia | Inclusion | Racism
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I first came to Scotland 14 years ago to study, and apart from a couple of years teaching abroad have stayed here. I don’t usually get into the game of comparing England with Scotland, but one thing that has always struck me is just how naturally welcoming and inclusive the Scots people are. Even traditional local rivalries [...]
How education really can make a difference….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 30, 2008
A couple of years ago,the case of the 11-year-old girl getting pregnant after a drunken night out on the town hit the headlines. I thought at the time that that was a shocking indictment of the state of sex education in schools. Predictably, the media attached the blame not only to her mother, but also to her [...]
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