The Eighteenth Republic - More U Turns On The Horizon? - INSET Days and travel problems

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. It is meant for school staff only – a sort of room of requirement. Baiters, haters, goaders 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 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

Do not give ‘The Every twat for Themselves mob’ the staffroom password as a number of them are operating in an alternative reality.

No DfE muppets allowed

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 goad us then that is not allowed in the staffroom. Close the door quietly on your way out

@TheHoneyBadger

Whynot the curse of being a good teacher is feeling like a shit teacher! Shit teachers probably think they’re great. It’s a bit like how it’s never the narcissist who presents for therapy.

You’re absolutely not alone in this and I’m more than happy to have a phone/messenger/pick your format buddy for getting through the next term if you want one.

We should probably all set up a WhatsApp or messenger group or have a sodding zoom drinks meeting. This is definitely more supportive and helpful than any ‘real’ staffroom I’ve ever had.

Yes definitely. I couldn’t have got through the last few months without you all.

@WhyNotMe40

Could we personally be held responsible for students catching the virus if we don't enforce distancing? Or get too close?

This concerns me too. I also worry about those occasional tickly cough episodes that bring tears to your eyes, or accidentally spitting a bit or even talking too loudly.

I'm sorry @WhyNotMe40, I didn't see your post about self-harming before I quoted you.

@MNHQ this is why you have a duty of care not to allow this forum to be used for teacher bashing. It's shameful and intensely damaging.

@WhyNotMe40
[manly clap on the shoulder]

My jobshare partner and I are seriously considering a secret stash of gin in the stock cupboard.
Is that a sackable offence?

Time for this.

Amazing fripp!

Thanks for answering my question

@CallmeAngelina

My jobshare partner and I are seriously considering a secret stash of gin in the stock cupboard. Is that a sackable offence?

If you work in my school and I like you, you know about the Prosecco stash in my office. The head knows (Not because I like him) and I still have a job so I think it's okay

Fripp second one made me cry and I'm trying to get lunch!!!

@TheHoneyBadger

Whynot the curse of being a good teacher is feeling like a shit teacher! Shit teachers probably think they’re great. It’s a bit like how it’s never the narcissist who presents for therapy.

You’re absolutely not alone in this and I’m more than happy to have a phone/messenger/pick your format buddy for getting through the next term if you want one.

We should probably all set up a WhatsApp or messenger group or have a sodding zoom drinks meeting. This is definitely more supportive and helpful than any ‘real’ staffroom I’ve ever had.

I don't post much. But 100%- reading the staffroom has kept me sane.

@TheHoneyBadger

Whynot the curse of being a good teacher is feeling like a shit teacher! Shit teachers probably think they’re great. It’s a bit like how it’s never the narcissist who presents for therapy.

You’re absolutely not alone in this and I’m more than happy to have a phone/messenger/pick your format buddy for getting through the next term if you want one.

We should probably all set up a WhatsApp or messenger group or have a sodding zoom drinks meeting. This is definitely more supportive and helpful than any ‘real’ staffroom I’ve ever had.

Couldn't agree more!

I had a bit of a revelation about MN this morning. You know how big it is and how many posts threads get. It can be dispiriting to keep posting on threads and have no one respond or acknowledge your posts. There are two ways to get your posts noticed and responses:

1. post intelligent and/or witty content.
2. post like a complete nob head.

There are some people who will never be able to get recognition through 1) so they head straight for 2) and stick there.

Has anyone reported the 'angry' thread? It actually reminds me of one of the early TB thread before staff gave us refuge.

There is no way it is valid debate.

I do love milesjupp.

I have reported several posters, but they have only deleted one post as if the others were not in the same vein.

I am not sure that I can be bothered to report all the goady posts.
It would take all day.

Thank you all for all your dedication. I have no children but am a member of society. Like everyone, parents or not, we have benefited from you looking after key worker children and teaching the doctors, lawyers plumbers care workers and (if they can bear it) teachers of the future.

@MNHQ should be commenting on that thread with 'peace and love and fgs stop teacher bashing' or something.

@MrsHamlet
The head knows (Not because I like him) and I still have a job so I think it's okay

He's likely got a bigger stash for himself. My old head was an NQT decades ago and he said that his old head used to host lock-ins in his office all the time 😂

@CallmeAngelina

My jobshare partner and I are seriously considering a secret stash of gin in the stock cupboard. Is that a sackable offence?

In the good old days we had a staff tutor (he was an ex-hod, slt but nearing retirement and was about the age of my dad when I was an nqt). He had his own office and if you were having a shit time you could go and cry all over him and he wouldn’t judge or pass anything on to ht or anyone else if you didn’t want him to but he’d always give good advice. I taught the same subject as him and Friday after school our department would gather in his office, he’d pull out the bottle of whisky and we’d put the world to rights before going home. That’s how staff wellbeing should be done!

Love it gripping !!

I’m offering a £1000 reward to who can make show his working out in maths

Just read FE guidance and now sobbing quietly. Need to remove online teaching essentially yet also somehow socially distance a group of 24 in a room built for 24...

The head of my previous school was an English teacher and I was his hod. His last ever lesson (yes he taught!) was year 12 literature, and I sat in. When they'd all gone, he locked his office door and poured us both a sherry from his stash in his filing cabinet. He was a good egg all round

I’m wondering what I could do to help the mental health of staff. I’m part time and mps so no way to effect change officially and no office or even classroom to shelter anyone in. I am happy to volunteer an hour a week to something.

The last head I liked and had genuine respect for was way back in 2000, when i'd only been qualified a few years and was still in Secondary. He had a drinks cabinet in his office, put a pint behind the bar in the local pub for all staff at the end of term and made a point of teaching the worst year 9 class and the lowest year 11 class every year. He also insisted on coming on a residential every year and mucking in with the rest of us. Staff would do anything for him because he was genuinely a lovely man.

Never had one that wasn't a complete dickwad since.

Never had one that wasn't a complete dickwad since.

I've had two great heads, three so-so heads, and one head who was so unutterably vile that even seeing him makes me feel sick. How he has anything to do with people is beyond me.