Educating Greater Manchester

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Just love this series.

Rani

I don't know how school timetabling works

Dont feel bad. I have a daughter who's a teacher and Im well aware of the hours she puts in but Im also well aware of the holidays she gets.

My DP has a bog standard 40 hrs a week office job with 5 weeks annual leave = 1880 hours a year.

I'm a teacher, I do on average 60 hours a week with 14 weeks off= 2280 hours a year.
No wonder I'm knackered. Give over with the 'but you get all those holidays' crap.

So 3 brothers work in the same school, 2 in senior management positions?

All 3 are in senior roles

They were on Saturday Kitchen or similar. One is in charge of behaviour. There are a few husband and wife teachers in dc's school.

There are a few husband and wife teachers in dc's school

Its very common on the expat circuit. Husband and wife teaching couples. Its also very common for a Head Master for eg to wangle a job for his wife on the admin staff as part of his conditions of employment.

Husband and wife team at ds's school too- they're both fantastic teachers.

I was shocked at the casual rudeness of some of the pupils. For example, the MFL teacher giving boxing lessons to one of the fighting brothers. At the end of the session, when asked how it went, the boy was graceless and didn't even say thank you. I felt for the teachers. I also thought the casual use of phones in lessons and the answering back to the teachers was annoying and shocking; how typical is this in senior schools today? The complete lack of aspiration and intellectual drive was depressing.

The answering back horrified me when I started watching the Educating series. In fact i think in some of the previous schools the rudeness was worse than HF. That might be because in some previous series they concentrated on the worst behaved pupils week in week out for the drama, whereas they've tried to concetrate on different aspects each week in this series i think

I said to my dc "You'd better not ever speak to a teacher like that!" They said "We don't!"

Lots of husband and wife when I was at school. Including a teacher who married a sixth former!

Lots of husband and wife when I was at school. Including a teacher who married a sixth former!

Oh Jeez, Ive just remembered we had two teachers who were brothers married to two sisters who were also teachers in our school.

Our geography and maths teacher hit married, we were stunned when they announced it as for years we'd giggled about them meeting in the stationery cupboard for a shag without any proof whatsoever. We were so amazed when it happened that we all went to throw confetti at the church just to make sure they weren't having us on

**got married

Oh wow. Drew Povey's website and blog is certainly... interesting!

Is he not the HT any more then?

Have just looked at his website. Don't doubt his sincerity, but what a load of Billy bullshit he spouts about leadership.

Sounds like he is doing “leadership” consultancy.

That’s what I was thinking too book!

He’s still on the Harop Fold website as HT so I guess he’s also doing consultancy?

I expect so, ds's primary school teacher did both.

**Head teacher

It does seem like a lot of time is spent dealing with behaviour but I guess if they don’t deal with that first none of the ones with attitude will even try to work. They’ve made mention of what a poor and rough background a lot of the kids come from so I guess it’s quite easy for us to judge the back chat etc and say we wouldn’t accept that but thankfully my child isn’t growing up in that area.

Bookridden the use of phones in HF is atypical. I don't know a secondary school in our area that allows it. In ds2's school if the teachers even spot one in your pocket or bag, they'll confiscate it. I don't blame them at all.

Worked in quite a number of schools in the NW over the last two years, from very rough to decent. Phones strictly banned and policy enforced everywhere. I suspect Harrop has gone down the same route since filming - they cause no end of problems.