Ep 194: Q&A: Reading For Pleasure Gimmicks, Flimsy Behaviour Policies & Wellbeing Fads

A wellbeing lead has introduced a shout-out wall and free fruit in the staffroom. The teacher who wrote in knows exactly why staff morale is low, and it has nothing to do with bananas. Dylan and Hayden are firmly on their side.

Then a Year 8 student tells a teacher to f*** off and is back in their classroom grinning thirty minutes later. Every other kid in that room clocked exactly what just happened. Dylan and Hayden get into why pretending that is an acceptable behaviour response is damaging for everyone, including the child.

If you were education secretary, what changes first? Dylan and Hayden both take a proper swing at this one and the answers might surprise you.

A parent who genuinely cannot grasp how far behind their child is, despite months of softly softly conversations and now more direct ones too. What do you actually do next?

Can reading for pleasure even be taught? Or is calling it that just setting everyone up for a miserable experience before they have even opened the book?

Honest, direct, and a lot of fun from start to finish.

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