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Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 14th March 2014, 9:34 AM GMT

So what qualifies you to judge whether I know what I am talking about?

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As much as what qualifies you to assess a schools management capabilities without any school management capabilities yourself. Did you sit on the senior management meetings planning the curriculum? Have you a teacher qualification and lets say ten years experience of teaching various year groups to assess whether the teaching capabilities and management strategies of others? If so I'll hold my hands up and say you have a point.

Also we don't know what personal gripes you have in the school. Perhaps your rubbish at your job and are given a hard time by the staff. We only have your word for your observations which are often coloured by our position in the workplace.

Lame arse jokes that you know are coming from the same dull as shite topical comedy programmes -

Such as the missing Malaysia airlines jet being blamed on street magician Dynamo. Oh ha, ha, hee, hee, ho, bloody, ho.

Shoot me now.

The 'shit sandwich' approach of breaking bad news to people. I took time out this morning to go to the orthodontist, paid for 2 hours of parking, went inside and waited. Unusually, the dentist herself came out to see me, and so I expected her to say they'd screwed up the appointment, but she said "everything's absolutely fine", before saying that my trip had been wasted because someone wasn't there today. I asked her to explain her initial statement about everything being fine when in fact nothing was; but she just repeated herself and said sorry.

Quote: roscoff @ 14th March 2014, 10:16 AM GMT

As much as what qualifies you to assess a schools management capabilities without any school management capabilities yourself. Did you sit on the senior management meetings planning the curriculum? Have you a teacher qualification and lets say ten years experience of teaching various year groups to assess whether the teaching capabilities and management strategies of others? If so I'll hold my hands up and say you have a point.

Also we don't know what personal gripes you have in the school. Perhaps your rubbish at your job and are given a hard time by the staff. We only have your word for your observations which are often coloured by our position in the workplace.

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You don't need to be qualified to see that someone is shit at their job, besides which, a couple of the 10% of the dedicated teachers have told me that certain colleagues are useless as teachers, which confirmed what I thought.

I have no gripe with the school or the staff in general and I hardly think that if I was rubbish at my job I would still be in it after 20 years, also when I mooted early retirement the majority ( they like me you see ) asked me to stay on, saying they would miss me, and yes, I know you only have my word for that...............

I have seen too much swinging of the lead whilst a supply teacher is brought in at £100 per day to cover their hangovers or sniffles and thousands of pounds spent of unnecessary equipment, which is abandoned when they realise it is not what they wanted. If you could see the equipment that is thrown away on a regular basis in the skip you would see what I mean.

You are the one that is pontificating about something you clearly know absolutely nothing about.

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 14th March 2014, 4:51 PM GMT

You don't need to be qualified to see that someone is shit at their job, besides which, a couple of the 10% of the dedicated teachers have told me that certain colleagues are useless as teachers, which confirmed what I thought.

I have no gripe with the school or the staff in general and I hardly think that if I was rubbish at my job I would still be in it after 20 years, also when I mooted early retirement the majority ( they like me you see ) asked me to stay on, saying they would miss me, and yes, I know you only have my word for that...............

I have seen too much swinging of the lead whilst a supply teacher is brought in at £100 per day to cover their hangovers or sniffles and thousands of pounds spent of unnecessary equipment, which is abandoned when they realise it is not what they wanted. If you could see the equipment that is thrown away on a regular basis in the skip you would see what I mean.

You are the one that is pontificating about something you clearly know absolutely nothing about.

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Well I can report from my school (primary) I've seen teachers dragging themselves in when they clearly should be home in bed, equipment used until it is literally falling apart because we have no money to replace it and pupils being consoled and brought back to equilibrium after being destroyed by their home life. I am a senior teacher in a sector leading school. I actually do know what I'm talking about.

Quote: roscoff @ 14th March 2014, 11:50 PM GMT

Well I can report from my school (primary) I've seen teachers dragging themselves in when they clearly should be home in bed, equipment used until it is literally falling apart because we have no money to replace it and pupils being consoled and brought back to equilibrium after being destroyed by their home life. I am a senior teacher in a sector leading school. I actually do know what I'm talking about.

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Fair enough, you have your experience and I can only relate to you what I see going on, which indirectly is my taxes being wasted.

There are of course, good schools and there are bad - the one I work in is generally OK and I have enjoyed my time working in it.

I'm intrigued what a school technician does

All I can think of is either the guy in the brown coat who set up the experiments for the science teacher or the care taker who used to put wood shavings on vomit.

That or a dinner lady, there's a certain technical skill one supposes in making custard pink and then putting it on a sponge.

I admire teachers, there's some shit ones, in every profession there will be. But managing a class of arsey teenagers, I used to do that as a youth worker. No one expected me to do that when teaching algebra or grammar.

My old PE teacher still has a facebook filled with hatred about him.

But if I'm writing this and you're reading it, it's thanks to a teacher.

Horse racing.

Boring little tit jockeys, fat cat twats poncing about in top hats or trilbys with a feather stuck in the band and tarts with silly hats on.

And now it's four horses dead at Cheltenham.

Sport? I think not.

And a surprisingly high rate of suicide and alcoholism amongst jockeys although it probably doesn't take much to get the little fellas drunk.
It just seems so dull, when ever I see it on C4, it's like you could be showing Columbo or an Ealing film.
And because horses don't earn a salary it's like football was 60 years ago, where all the money is concentrated in the rich owners.

That said a reality show on some obscure digital channel, had post modern jousting. Pretty good fun.

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 15th March 2014, 8:51 AM GMT

Horse racing.

Boring little tit jockeys, fat cat twats poncing about in top hats or trilbys with a feather stuck in the band and tarts with silly hats on.

And now it's four horses dead at Cheltenham.

Sport? I think not.

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The local abattoir - many horses dead, French abattoirs, thousands of horses dead after a life of unending back breaking toil.

Neither is fair but race horses do have a pampered and good life.

Quote: sootyj @ 15th March 2014, 8:57 AM GMT

And a surprisingly high rate of suicide and alcoholism amongst jockeys although it probably doesn't take much to get the little fellas drunk.
It just seems so dull, when ever I see it on C4, it's like you could be showing Columbo or an Ealing film.
And because horses don't earn a salary it's like football was 60 years ago, where all the money is concentrated in the rich owners.

That said a reality show on some obscure digital channel, had post modern jousting. Pretty good fun.

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You summed it up in that one word - DULL. >_<

Quote: sootyj @ 15th March 2014, 8:43 AM GMT

I'm intrigued what a school technician does

All I can think of is either the guy in the brown coat who set up the experiments for the science teacher or the care taker who used to put wood shavings on vomit.

That or a dinner lady, there's a certain technical skill one supposes in making custard pink and then putting it on a sponge.

I admire teachers, there's some shit ones, in every profession there will be. But managing a class of arsey teenagers, I used to do that as a youth worker. No one expected me to do that when teaching algebra or grammar.

My old PE teacher still has a facebook filled with hatred about him.

But if I'm writing this and you're reading it, it's thanks to a teacher.

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Things have moved on somewhat from when you or I were at school as they have become more technically advanced, and so no longer is it a man in a brown coat.

Caretakers are now Site Managers, (I know - titles. Still caretakers to me) then, in the school I work in, 3 x science technicians who set up the equipment and organised test papers etc., 3 x IT technicians (every classroom now has a computer linked projector & white board and an intranet), 2 x CDT technicians in the workshops (assist and set-up) and an AV/ Reprographics technician as most large schools do their own video presentation and printing.

All this so teachers can concentrate on teaching, which is as it should be of course.

The plain fact is that teachers are continual whingers. There a far more difficult and stressful jobs out there. It is also a fact that they threaten industrial action more than any other sector. I never said that they do a bad job per se.

Fck me

Kids today are right little bastards

Teachers deserve medals

I wouldn't do their job even if you put a gun to my head

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 15th March 2014, 9:08 AM GMT

You summed it up in that one word - DULL. >_<

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I suspect that it is also the most corrupt and bent 'sport' in the world.