Joy Mbakwe on What Needs To Change in the Education System
Made by Mammas: The Podcast
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Today Zoe & Georgia speak to a former teacher, writer and mum of two Joy Mbakwe.
She doesn't hold back when discussing the current state and challenges that teachers and parents have to face when dealing with the education system. It's something we have all encountered and finding the right thing to do can be hard, so hopefully this chat will clear at least a little bit up for you!
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Comprehensive School Checklist
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Made by Mommas the podcast. I'm Zoe Hardman and I'm Georgia Dayton. |
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| 0:09.8 | With five kids between G and I, we have seen a lot. |
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| 0:35.6 | But for now, George, should we get into it? Hello, it's just me today. So is off gallivanting on the radio. I mean, actually not gallivanting. She is working. But I don't really know what I've got to catch up on. I've got a gold medalist gymnast now in my house. And she's definitely changed since she won her gold medal. |
| 0:56.6 | She now thinks she is the Queen of Sheba so that's brilliant for managing and I look forward to |
| 1:02.7 | further competitions to see where that takes her diva behaviour. But yeah, not much going on. We had |
| 1:10.1 | quite a chilled half term. We made made no plans kids went to a couple of |
| 1:14.9 | clubs a lot of it was spent for them laying in front of the TV playing the playstation like doing |
| 1:21.1 | all the stuff that I don't really let them do um during this term time um but yeah I'd let them have a little bit of a break, but they are back to |
| 1:29.9 | school now and I'm back to driving them around to all their different clubs and hating my life |
| 1:36.3 | again. So that's brilliant. But this episode is actually one that we've been wanting to do for a long time. |
| 1:45.5 | We've been wanting to talk about schools, education, all of that kind of stuff, as I have |
| 1:51.7 | spoken about. |
| 1:53.2 | Like, I find it so confusing, looking around schools, knowing what I'm supposed to be looking |
| 1:58.6 | at, actually even working out whether I want to |
| 2:01.7 | do the traditional secondary school route or whether I want to go online or so I was way more |
| 2:07.0 | chilled about this than I am, but Luna is in the year earlier than Axel, although they're only |
| 2:13.7 | four weeks apart. So let's look at next year and see how she is then, shall we? |
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