THE QUESTION
Why do school leavers not find work here?
Group cards you judge alike. Groups organise reading; they decide nothing.
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Clusters form from similarity, names come last
Canonical order: link pairs of ideas you judge similar — links are symmetric (A~B is B~A; direction never matters) and a tie holds once 2 members make it.
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Links are symmetric — A~B is B~A. Clusters are the groups that emerge from held ties, and only a formed cluster can be named, by a person. Your own links carry a ✕ to withdraw; you cannot remove someone else's. Clusters organise the wall and never gate the vote — two cards making the same CLAIM are a merge back in Clarify.
Links and names are made while Cluster is live; the steward’s ← reopens it.
Young people leave and do not come back
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
Nothing said yet.
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
We lost the workshops in the last building refurbishment
~ We have no idea where… · helddiscuss
We have no idea where last year's leavers went
~ We lost the workshops… · helddiscuss
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
The college is in the next town and the last bus is at six
~ The bus to the colleg… · helddiscuss
The bus to the college costs four pounds a day
~ The college is in the… · helddiscuss
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
Half the absence is caring for someone at home
~ Attendance is the pro… · helddiscuss
Attendance is the problem behind most of the others
~ Half the absence is c… · helddiscuss
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
Success is a pupil who leaves, and everyone knows it
~ A pupil who would thr… · helddiscuss
A pupil who would thrive in a workshop is pushed to university
~ Success is a pupil wh… · helddiscuss
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
A child who misses Year 9 never catches up in Year 11
~ Writing a CV is taugh… · helddiscuss
Writing a CV is taught by someone who has never read one professionally
· not yet clustered (26)
The staff who care most burn out fastest
Breakfast decides more of the morning than the lesson plan
Nobody has mapped what the local employers actually need
~ Nobody in the family … · held~ We prepare pupils for… · held~ The jobs here do not … · helddiscussing (1)
The one local employer who took students stopped after a bad experience
~ Writing a CV is taugh… · helddiscussing (1)
The good jobs are advertised through people who already work there
Employers cannot take a fourteen-year-old for insurance reasons
No teacher here has worked outside a school
~ The jobs here do not … · helddiscuss
Nobody in the family has been to a university open day
A placement week is arranged by whoever knows someone
A teacher is measured on results, not on what happens after
A part-time job pays now and a course pays in four years
We prepare pupils for a labour market nobody has described
Poverty looks like poor behaviour from the front of a classroom
Parents who were failed by school do not trust it
~ The jobs here do not … · helddiscuss
Everything not examined gets dropped by February
Employers want three years' experience for an entry job
The council's skills plan was written for industries that closed
The league table rewards the exam, not the life
The jobs here do not need what school taught
~ No teacher here has w… · held~ Nobody has mapped wha… · held~ Parents who were fail… · helddiscuss
The technical route is described to parents as the fallback
Careers advice is one afternoon in the final year
Nobody in a position to hire ever visits a classroom
Young people leave and do not come back
Nobody teaches how to be interviewed
The apprenticeship application closes before the exam results
There are eleven apprenticeships in this town and four hundred leavers