The Forty Fourth Republic - primaries sort of in, secondaries out, Gormless Gav says two weeks notice

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Hello all! Love reading your posts today 😂

Back from opticians and my sight has got significantly more long sighted since end of August. Combo of age but also better blood sugar control recently - particularly last week.l hence my sudden inability to see. Embarrassingly I cried when she showed me how I would see with new prescription - I think I was worried my eyes were fucked and I was going blind 🤦‍♀️

You have to be an approved follower of that bloke on Twitter, piggy.

I am just a disapproving follower.

Whoah, anyone watching the news? An MP, Desmond Swain is being hauled over the coals for association and promotion of a group that turns out to be anti-vac. They didn't say the name of the group, but I'm sure U4T were championing him on their page???

Sir Desmond Swayne to you, Ange

He’s a proper covid denier. Which is why, of course, he supports Us4Them.

[quote Piggywaspushed]I am not going to call him out on twitter but this guy is a headteacher. A HEADteacher. Would you work for him??

twitter.com/LawrenceEFoley[/quote]
Can you call him out on here? I can’t see what he’s written. Harris Academy though, I’m sure it’s not unreasonable at all.

No I wouldn't work for that head. He's not a head though really, those dudes at Harris don't innovate or owt.

@noblegiraffe

Sir Desmond Swayne to you, Ange

He’s a proper covid denier. Which is why, of course, he supports Us4Them.

So is that who the BBC were referring to, but wouldn't actually name? And if so, why not?

No, I don’t think it was them, I think he also supports properly open anti-vaxx groups.

He’s anti-mask, anti-lockdown, generally despicable.

I could see his profile earlier and now I can't. There was some spouting about Rosen and a few other nasty tweets about covid.

Harris says it all.

My favourite quote from Desmond Swayne is

”We had a meeting last week and everybody was perfectly sane.”

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10430677.dorset-conservatives-dismiss-swivel-eyed-loons-label/

Worst day of lockdown so far and it was one of my days off. Trying to get very stubborn 8 year old to do the work he hadn't done on my working days

I wonder if Harris academy schools have a recruitment problem.
I know round here, there a couple of schools that most teachers give a wide swerve when looking to move on. I think trainees get advised as well.
Just so it is clear to an lurkers - because of the management, not the kids.

@RigaBalsam

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-merseyside-55813161

Was this posted on here? So sad awful.

WOW!! Read that on the Echo - the original article never mentioned her being a RQT!! She couldn't have possibly caught it in school though

@hedgehogger1

Worst day of lockdown so far and it was one of my days off. Trying to get very stubborn 8 year old to do the work he hadn't done on my working days

I bribed my 4 year old to do his reading today (in between teaching 5 lessons to fucking timetable). One chocolate button per sentence read or word written. He ended up with 4.5 chocolate buttons.... I have ended up on wine.

His Minecraft world is coming on amazingly though ....

Can I just come in and hide by the biscuits?

Tutor phone calls today (2 hours), I am not cut out for pastoral!

Had to hand in my 'skills assessment' for our redundancy process - might have panicked and pretty much offered to teach anything going 🙈

I've invested in parental control software so I can block stuff til the school day is over. There is an ever growing blocked list.

That teacher that's died was so young! Practically a child herself :(

Have people seen the NEU's Recovery Plan? Weird timing because it's surely more announcement worthy than the buying of pencils....

If you click through it's supported (?) by something called Action Squared which has been involved with environmental coalition etc etc. Not had time to look further but I wouldn't imagine the right wing would be very impressed with it.

@hedgehogger1

I've invested in parental control software so I can block stuff til the school day is over. There is an ever growing blocked list.

I have parental controls as well, but I also need him to be occupied during my lessons so he doesn't zoom bomb or scream outside the door too much. God I hate this.

Had to hand in my 'skills assessment' for our redundancy process - might have panicked and pretty much offered to teach anything going

My worst would be PE. I loathe sport so don’t even know the rules to most games. They mostly involve a ball going in a net but that’s pretty much all I know.
I’d be shit at art too.

I had to make phone calls today to make up for missed appointments due to fucking soundcloud.

God I missed the 5 minute limit.

DD took an hour to do a bloody maths worksheet today on dividing by 5. Taking the piss.

There's a very prominent maths edutweeter who works at a Harris. I can never quite get if they actually like it or the tweets are ironic. They haven't mentioned their workplace in a while...

@WhenSheWasBad

Had to hand in my 'skills assessment' for our redundancy process - might have panicked and pretty much offered to teach anything going

My worst would be PE. I loathe sport so don’t even know the rules to most games. They mostly involve a ball going in a net but that’s pretty much all I know.
I’d be shit at art too.

We're overrun with PE teachers and I have a bad back so definitely not! My worst would be English - I love it but don't think I could teach it.

Hopefully won't be required but we are quite heavy as a department - two are already teaching KS3 maths!