#frothers Unite!! Time for change.

[northernmonkey]

Hello to all you #frothers
Thought I'd take the liberty of starting us a nice new thread as the other is getting rather full. :)

Oops OFSTED

I'm going to give Twitter another go for the fifteenth time

I am sally__decker (two underscores)- do I follow others or do you follow me? I'm sorry, I should understand this, but I too am a teacher and therefore really, really thick.

I think we all follow each other until we become one frothing mass.

tethers - once more for me too Am rather clueless and also a teacher!

Right- I am following some of you! I think! Woohoo!

i'm [shocked] at the changes to CSA

I am actually fuming about the new OFSTED bloke, the only decent thing he said was about academies.

Further denigration of our profession.

Just catching up, shocking stuff.

CSA changes

Bank bonuses yet again

Michael Bloody Wilshaw

Twitter folk if you follow @tmc_frothers which is a central account you can copy all our followers to find the frothers.

Also look out for tweets with #frothers

@sarahg_says did a huge follow Friday of all the frothers using #frothyfriday. If you search for that you'll get about 5 tweets with good people to follow.

Agree about Michael Wilshaw, using SEN as a cover for poor teaching? Well thank you very much.

Jusr when you think you're keeping track of most stuff up pops a twat like Michael Wilshaw

I think we need a list of issues on the FB page. The sort of thing where people can add a comment saying "Have you ssen this? Fucking disgusting". Then I we can keep a track of what we should be keeping track of. It will also be a good place to get ideas for the blog.

Garlic
We will get loads more comments if they don't have to sign in. Does blogger have a spam filter? Mine is fab, I never have spam on the blog.

#frothers at the OFSTED guy. What a knob.

Hello all the new #frothers.

Say hello if you are not on the #frothers list here - it makes it easier for new #frothers as they can just follow everyone on the list.

Garlic, I've replied to your email and think I know what I'm doing now, in a tiny, tiny way.

Ofsted are a bunch of consultants who get paid about £400 a day. some of them havn't taught for years.

i'm a lecturer in a 'failing' FE college in London. We have Ofsted next week, again. Last one was 18 months ago. it's a farcical game of convince the inspectors we're not shit. The teaching has never been graded as shit. It's the management but we (teaching staff) are constantly told we must do better. There are no support services because the last round of consultants came and spent all the money. There have been two rounds of redundancies. everyone had to re-apply for their jobs. The students are being failed because with no pastoral support lecturers have to do the teaching and support of, mostly and often, vulnerable people. It is all utterly shit. The lovely photos in the corridors all date from the last inspection. Guess what? We have all been asked (told) to update displays. Ordinarily they couldn't care less. The adults who really need and want to enroll (adults who are low level reader/writers have no course this year becaue they couldn't afford the extortionate £140 enrollment fee. The last consultants boughtich is sh the college new software (from their own company!) whit and doesn't work but we're all told we have to use it.

Arrrrrrrr

Sorry- all a bit ranty! Upshot is Ofsted is no longer one government body. Ofsted inspectors are drawn from private consultancy companies. This seems to be where the money is.

My view is: Ofsted come in.
Ofsted declare establishment as 'failing'
Bring in consultants, who maybe from the same company as the inspectors.
They come in. 'Turn' the college around using public money. They are all in each others pockets and are just ensuring the money goes to them rather than stay in the college to be used on the students.

Rant over

Blogger does have a spam filter but it's a bit rubbish. Also, you'll need to decide what to do with hate comments ... I'm in favour of leaving them and attempting to deal with them, but that does mean quite a big time & effort investment.

I'm taking the restriction off now. Any of the admins can re-instate it, and any author can delete comments from their own posts.

Tufty well done!

Ok. So I've joined Twitter and emailed you my email garlic. My Twitter account is -unsuprisingly-TuftyFinch.

What do I do now?

I am not so inept in all the areas of my life. Mostly.

I would leave hate comments and deal with them. Intelligent and cutting response always better than , I find.

can't find you tuftyfinch

Blackout Here

following now

you know the i'm looking at stuff the more and more pissed off i'm getting

Michael Wilshaw

Michael Gove admires Michael Wilshaw. Nuff said.

and they have both got their heads up their own arses

Quick question, bit morbid - does anyone have the Link to the story about the ex-soldier and his partner that committed suicide due to the ESA / JSa trap? I have googled but can't blinking find it, and I'm trying to draft my blog page.

i remember that i'll have a look

was so so sad