Thirteenth Republic - School’s out for summer, no more pencils no more books!

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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

*lives not loves, although that might be relevant too!

Lost you all and found you all!

Came to post this, probably what July is referring to...!

Tesco asks staff to clean shelves, floors and loos www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53501318

Oh, I see the BBC article!

They took my favourite quote from that thread. I wanted to hug the poster who said that!

Glad they didn't quote the TB nonsense.

Can someone link? I've looked but I cannot find

@ohthegoats

I'm sorry, but in 2020, if you are in a relationship with children where you are unhappy that the childcare sharing in your parental relationship is not fair, then sort it out. My partner went part time for child care reasons when maternity leave was over, and so did I. When she started school, I went back to full time, so did he. During lockdown we split our time in half for childcare, and for 'own time'.

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Dave Grohl has been defending us!

www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/07/dave-grohl-pandemic-reopening-schools-health-teachers/614422/

mistreess it's on neuro's post.

[quote Piggywaspushed]Dave Grohl has been defending us!

www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/07/dave-grohl-pandemic-reopening-schools-health-teachers/614422/[/quote]
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I have been watching Foo vids on YouTube for much of the evening interspersed with Parks And Rec.
If Ron Swanson gave us the shout out too I would die a happy woman

Thanks Piggy

I ❤ Dave Grohl so much. Every time I think he can't get any cooler he levels up.

We need to do a teacher version of Walk, where we all just abandon our cars and fight off the dogshit of TB expectation.......

Love Dave Grohl. Saw the Foos a couple of years ago. They were awesome!
Honey I had to move schools to go through the threshold. For the second time. Damn that child rearing career break!

I do apologise, for omitting the actual BBC link from all 3 of my posts, then disappearing!

I could launch into a long sad explanation for my disappearance, but suffice it to say, never balance your phone on a cupboard above a full washing up bowl!!!!!

Ooops!

Ooh my thread made the BBC, I’m so proud! (And relieved it wasn’t the Daily Mail).

My proudest moment was getting a sweary post quoted on Buzzfeed (about passport checks in schools). My most mortifying moment was when Sam Freedman tweeted a rather stalkery thread I started about him saying that he felt a bit scared

But yeah, careful what you write, folks, other people do read and repost.

Indeed. Under a previous incarnation I had to have the whole history of my posts under that name erased due to mra stalkers trawling through for details and quoting on some really disturbing sites.

I’m occasionally paranoid someone will be on here from my school and recognise me but still better than a league of mras and incels after me lol

honeybee you basically summed up why I got into teaching! Apart from:moved back to area with no graduate opportunities, a family who saw teachi g as an incredibky well paid job and too quick to be seduced by a big salary fir a 22 year old after doing bar work.after uni. I.didn't even like kids. Probably cos I.wasn't much older than them. Had a pretty awful nqt year, but got hooked and am.still doing it nearly 20 years later.

Ffs, honeybadger

I was on the ups prior to having children but time out and then needing to return part time meant returning to mps. Since then i've been stuck at m6 for years. The tlr are given (not put out for jobs) to friends of the slt. The only way i'll pass threshold is if I take on more management which I don't really want. As it is primary teachers often already lead subjects and manage yeargroups for no tlr. The only tlr in my school are english and maths leads. The senco comes up pretty frequently because it's a shitty job in our trust.

I need to find another school when this settles down. Unfortunately the shitty trust i work for has the local area pretty much sewn up.

WHO is the kitchen TB?! Now on a thread about ‘positive news‘ about the virus (so nothing to do with teachers) saying that there is money in school budgets for the teacher pay rise?!

I was on L scales for 7 years, which meant when I went back to a classroom job, I automatically went onto UPS3. Well - I didn't know that when I applied for jobs, but was told that when I got offered the first one. Nice surprise, although it obviously made me really expensive. I didn't take the first job offer, and waited a year until I wanted to leave my last job to go travelling for a bit. Handed in my notice with nothing to go to, and assumed I'd have to go for MPS jobs to get something.

Then had one of those freaky occasions where the stars align, happened to pick up a green sheets, saw current job, had never heard of the school, out of my LA, very different culturally from previous jobs... they offered me UPS3 with a decent TLR for being phase lead. I think I earn my TLR to be honest, I have a fair bit of personnel management stuff to do, plus budgets and stuff - my phase is bigger than the whole school I was deputy at. A guy in my phase is on UPS2 though, and he's rubbish. Has been trying to leave for 4 years but just can't get another job and doesn't want a pay cut.

That was not me telling you to eff off! It was a cryptic response to appu ....

As predicted that nosnesical Times article is picking up traction.

Anyone would think the Times journalists who trawl MN put their entirely without foundation or evidence article in the paper deliberately yesterday.

That coronavirus board was started so that people who felts stressed didn't have to see the stuff on AIBU Chat etc. . It was created at the behest of corona deniers so they didn't have to be 'bombarded' with The fear. Funny how they now populate it, slapping people down for even expressing any anxiety or doubt and telling anyone with any actual robust research that they are wrong. (eg the SK report is wrong and not peer assessed but the Times article is Such Good News)

As they would say ... FFS