The Ninth Republic - stand by for the return of Year 10

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You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. It is meant for school staff. Baiters and bashers can jog on somewhere else.

If you are NOT staff and just have a general education query please start your own thread.

You can play here only if you are a member of one the following groups-

-ABBA - anti bashers and baiting association
-SWAB - school workers against bashers
-SWOT - school workers opposing teacherbashers
-STARS - schoolworkers together against ranting + slurs

Other requirements for staff room entry include the ability to find the staff room, the ability to find a clean mug in the staff room, knowledge of the photocopier codes, and the ability to sniff out where the toffee vodka is hidden.

If you are fed up with cakes and biscuits there is now a cheeseboard on offer

If you come with a stick to beat us with then please do so elsewhere and not in the staffroom.

I love James O'Brien. Could listen to him all day.

Motherrunner sorry they were so vile. Don't take it to heart. These people are disgusting.

Wow, motherrunner, that was brutal.
Have a seat and some gin over here.

WhyNotMe40 Why does that not surprise me?

motherrunner I just read a bit of that thread and you were unfortunately victims of a couple of the worst teacher bashers we have had over the past few months, plus the actual teacher one who is ‘indy’ don’t you know??
Disgusting bullying but nothing will happen and they will just keep turning up. It’s why most of us don’t post over there anymore

Think we can be deleted if it’s directly taat. Think quoting puts us over the line so careful. I’d hate this thread to go poof.

That said it paints her in a terrible light. Going off sick because key worker childcare isn’t good enough for her and bragging she’ll take a year off and increase waiting times. That’s appalling

I name checked about 12 posters in my email.

Also, she is being paid that disgusting public sector sick pay thing that no one should use. Or whatever. Apparently.

It's amazing they want to send their kids to school considering how much they hate teachers.
Vile bullies. Motherrunner you sound amazing don't let the bastards grind you down

Shall we make a pact mother?

I keep promising myself not to go anywhere but staffroom and keep failing - no other MN until Monday?

I need to hide a few more threads first!

I need an advanced hide which hides anything school related, then we could disguise this thread as something else by pretending to be a different profession? Florist? farmer?

The amphibious one must be

Horrendous. Only have sympathy for posts that suit their narrative.

I said that before riga : definitely agree.

Feeling depressed at the number of threads now suggesting we either change the school year to run differently or just repeat this whole year.

I have a Y10 DS who is being horrendously difficult at the moment. I'm seriously doubting that I will get him back to school in September, or whether he is going to be refusing. If he is told he'll be starting in September at the beginning of Y10 again I know what his reaction will be!

Honestly - these ridiculous pushy parents who can't bear that their precious DC might not get the excellent grades they were expecting! They have no idea what life is like for some of our pupils who hate school, struggle to get there, struggle to cope. I couldn't bear to tell some of my vulnerable students - hey, guess what? We've arrange for you to do another year all over again...

Feminist chat has been a joyous distraction and I'm cleansed of the dementors. I literally cannot be arsed. Leave them to their goading.

Do they not think we find it fucking hard?? I do get pangs of worry over ds. His bs and ds have gone back to reversals. But then I think about everything he's learnt instead. He's also shouted a couple of times he'd much rather do school work at school, so my work is done...!

Lots of meetings this week, and training. I think my role will be changing soon, still wfh but different.

I can't see how they can do two years? I expect your ds's experience is very common. We will struggle with a lot of kids like that.

The thing is, most of what they absolutely HAVE to learn.is arbitrary anyway and we repeat a lot of it year on year. I went to school in the 80s and 90s, where group work and creativity were everything. Didn't really know what parts of speech were until I did A level mfl. Dc are supposed to.know it at 8ish. Dh didn't learn any languages. I didn't do anthing to do with computers.No one I know did Latin. Kids are only missing education if the exams are set up that way. 1 kid missing months is a nightmare . The whole country, not so much.

Could work.in.gov favour to make them all repeat- that's millions off the unemployment list.

@HipTightOnions @ohthegoats edging towards right wing over there if we are all Marxists

Asuitable, same here. Had no idea what a verb was till pgce. So did struggle in french!

Interestingly, I was discussing group work with an eyfs expert. You do loads of that in eyfs but it all goes individual in y1. Her / their view is that they learn from each other. But when that goes, I see children becoming more anxious in yr 1-2 over writing and art etc. Perfectionists. Or giving up.

Y2 now doing sentence types that are so rigid it takes the creativity out of it!

And my son actually pointed out today exactly why column addition was removed under the numeracy strategy. He said he gets confused and forgets. He's actually capable of doing it all in his head. But nearly got it wrong with column addition.

most of what they absolutely HAVE to learn.is arbitrary anyway

YES! We need to really slim the curriculum down, look at the absolute essentials. Unfortunately in primary that will mean fewer of the fun subjects, more boring grammar.

I'm worrying about September being part time. I've planned all my (not maths and English yet) curriculum subjects and really would like the kids in to do some fab DT.

My maths online stuff this week has been equivalent fractions. Can you imagine trying to do that at home with your children. Boring, confusing, where is the point?

White rose?

Lol, ds enjoyed it! But to their credit, he's understood it.

I love grammar. But I didn't at 18 and it would have killed English for me in primary.

anyone else loved Mr Robot and finds it odd to say White Rose so much?

I think grammar is killing english. I think that's why my ds has gone off writing. A friend said the same recently; her daughter used to write loads of stories and now doesn't. Only just 7.