The Forty First Republic - Gav encourages parents to report schools to OFSTED

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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 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 staffroom password just in case it attracts the wrong sort

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 booze is stashed - Thirsty Tuesdays, Fizz Fridays now in operation.

If you come with a stick to goad us then that is not allowed in the staffroom and you will receive a detention

I miss the flirtation and affairs of secondary

I guess I have that at the moment with DH and wfh next week that we haven’t had since working together over 10 years ago!
(Except without the fun flirtation or affair )

@phlebasconsidered

I miss the flirtation and affairs of secondary. I had a thing with a geography teacher (even though, as a was then history teacher, it was just colouring in) and practically every department had staff at it with other staff. Back.in the day I even used to go for drinks down the pub where things would happen.

It just doesn't happen in primary because there's usually only one bloke and he's promoted and moves on before you know it. They're usually knobheads as well.

As a primary teacher, I agree with that 100%. Not many men, promoted very quickly, nearly always knobheads .

I just read elsewhere that schools have been closed for four weeks

I met my oh at school. Him Maths, me Maths and Science. Dated a learning mentor in my youth too.

TheHoneyBadger

And on the flip side of that, people moaning about the poor provision from Scottish schools when their online learning doesn’t even start until Monday and even then, doesn’t have to be fully online until the 18th!

You couldn’t make it up.

Medra take care of yourself.

Thanks Staff

When I was at school our Dance teacher married a PE teacher. Then left him for an English teacher (who had a partner and two kids). It was quite the scandal at the time.

Apparently the dance teacher and the English teacher are still together and foster babies now.

I promised myself I wouldn't do school work today so have done loads of house work instead Just thought might be good to check ds' laptop was ready to go for Monday (don't think he's looked at it since last bitter bout of home schooling) and it won't bloody work!! Keeps saying it's encountered a problem and needs to restart. I am Not.Amused. and will not doubt be up late trying to sort this out.

I'm married to someone I used to work beside. When I was at school, a teacher married one of the students not long after she left. I remember he was one of the older staff so it seemed unlikely! They were still together 20+ years later

Just send him into school mistress... oops no Gav doesn't actually have any say where you are does he...

Here's something to make hearts glad (genuinely):

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I had a colleague (maths) who found out her husband (PE) was cheating on her with another PE teacher because the kids found out and told her. Awful. She stayed with him as well, and they both stayed at the school a while longer. Horrific.

My boyfriend got a temporary job at my school as a cover supervisor for a term, when I'd been there a few years already. No kids knew we were together until we were dancing together at end of year prom and a y13 took me aside and said he was no fun and very strict, and recommended the new science teacher instead! To be fair he was very handsome...

Ah that's lovely @Ulelia

Oh no mistressiggi. I hope you get it sorted without too much stress.

I have done neither schoolwork (other than respond to 2 year 13 pupils who needed help with one specific question), or housework (which I should have done, the house it a complete tip). I did read a book this morning, a whole book, no wonder I didn't get up til this afternoon. And I went for a walk in the snow. And I've done some craft stuff. I've had a lovely lazy day, but will pay for it tomorrow when I have to plan all my lessons and do all the housework (it's all on me because dh has hurt his arm )

Checking in after a very odd week.

Went back into school on thurs but was exhausted by lunch (don't really remember the afternoon). Mostly have had meetings with new mentor talking about the children who are in, which children are home, which ones aren't engaging. I expect next week I'll be getting into it more properly.

Still feeling bloody exhausted. Slept all afternoon after getting up at 10. God knows how I'll manage once proper term planning etc kicks in. Luckily uni have been fab and are sorting out a long extension for my assignment so I don't have to kill myself in the process of doing it. I feel like i can manage school but I'm needing to sleep so much!

How are you doing @Medra?

I had a school friend who married the (old enough to be his mother, she had children older than him) PE teacher. Then they both became vicars.

MrsAD I think having a day off is really important (should ideally be two!) otherwise work just bleeds across into all our life.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

I had a school friend who married the (old enough to be his mother, she had children older than him) PE teacher. Then they both became vicars.

When I was at school, the vicar (also took school services - boarding school) ran off with one of the housemistresses. then the vicar's wife got together with the housemistress's deserted husband.

Or it could have been the other way round, tbh. It was a long time ago. Longstanding lesbian partnerships were more common than marriages amongst the staff, probably because, as an all girls' establishment, there were very few male teachers.

A drama teacher used to pinch my bum. At school. MeToo wasn't really a thing then, was it?

This is when I was a teacher btw!

@Cracklefraggle You’re very lovely to think of that poor teacher. The only (ex) secondary teacher parent in my class is currently making my live sessions very very difficult right now 😡

Sorry, didn’t need ‘currently’ AND ‘right now’ in that sentence.

I’m very tired.

Thanks for the new thread staff!

I met my DH when we both worked in the same college. Wasn't an affair on either side though!

I went to a new school a couple of years after we married, for many reasons, but one was because he had been there a lot longer than me and I started to feel I wasn't truly recognised in my own right. I was always "X's wife". I know that sounds ridiculous because I am his wife but I wanted to be recognised professionally in my own right.

There were a couple of affairs in our school about 2 years ago among a few young staff (no one in my team thankfully!). It all ended pretty badly and they all ended up leaving for new jobs to save the embarrassment/scandal

time Sorry to hear that. Is there a home school lesson agreement you can fall back on?

[quote Timeturnerplease]@Cracklefraggle You’re very lovely to think of that poor teacher. The only (ex) secondary teacher parent in my class is currently making my live sessions very very difficult right now 😡[/quote]
That needs passing on, if you have somebody to pass it on to.

Thanks @HercwasanEnemyofEducation, but she’s very cleverly not actually contravening anything...I can’t say what she’s doing because it would be outing, but parents are (apparently) starting to grumble at her on the class Whatsapp so hopefully she’ll be shamed enough to desist soon!

Only bonus is that I’m a v experienced/old teacher; it would be much more stressful for a newbie!