The broom cupboard 2 - just for when we get briefly stranded without a staffroom

[TheHoneyBadger]

I'll pop a link in the old one so you know where to find safe haven. I have tried to clear out some space by getting rid of the ohp and vcr trolley and gin is hidden behind the sick sand bucket.

Ah it’s the link, I just tried again. Was piggy’s a link to a disguised U4T crowdfunder, perchance?

Don't think so. I swear it happened to piggy but now searching I can't find it!

What did you say without the link? What is the fundraiser?

Yeah, you aren't allowed to post links to fundraisers. They automatically filter them out.

Ah have had a reply (I reported their post!), it’s because they have a blanket policy of no Crowdfunder links. Understandable.

So looking forward to the long weekend. Anyone got any nice plans?

Common language quirk here is to not say ts so water = War-er. Also tend to say are rather than our so lots of children spell our wrong. I think I fall accidentally into the I was sat camp, will have to try better!

Sounds like I was sat is becoming acceptable. I know language revolves and it’s fascinating, but I hate my language evolving, IYSWIM.

Evolves not revolves

DH constantly uses "evolving" language - bollocks to that, he's just lazy! He knows it drives me round the bend and, quite frankly, I'm pretty sure that's why he does it. Passive aggressive grammar... 😂

@eitak22

So looking forward to the long weekend. Anyone got any nice plans?

Common language quirk here is to not say ts so water = War-er. Also tend to say are rather than our so lots of children spell our wrong. I think I fall accidentally into the I was sat camp, will have to try better!

The glottal stop.

Reading some of these posts I'm realising that our kids language isn't too bad. I am a big hater of 'of' instead of have and I notice tons of adults do it here on mn.

Despite my lazy writing on mn and the internet in general I'm a bit of a stickler and have to restrain myself in how many times I correct a child's spoken grammar.

I was taught, perhaps my era of education, that there was nothing wrong with dialects or accents or slang but that the ability to switch register and match how you speak to the environment and company you find yourself in is an important skill that impacts social mobility so I do correct and encourage kids to know how to make that switch.

Sorry should have given an example. Eg. I should 'of' gone to specsavers. Or I could 'of' been a contender. I know it's wrong but I find it such an indicator of education levels.

Think that’s an interesting one Honey as its origin is surely in a mishearing that is perpetuated.

I look back fondly to the days just after I left uni when everyone would recoup in horror at a misplaced apostrophe on a chalked market stall sign for “Apple’s”.....
These days you’re as likely to find rogue punctuation in a glossy corporate brochure or, indeed, in a display on a school wall. Ahem.

*recoil
Our modern curse is Autocorrect!
Night all

I wouldn't say "I was sat eating my lunch" but I would say "I was sat next to an unusual character at the wedding" In one sense I'm meaning someone put me there?
Are they both wrong? Hmm I suppose second one should be seated but it doesn't quite convey what I'm intending.

Ooooh that school that said it had eliminated bullying through lunchtime ozymandias chanting is the new one in a racism row.
With the bonus that the guy roped in to sort out discipline was apparently none other than Barry Smith of ex-Michaela Great Yarmouth sick buckets in classrooms fame.

twitter.com/riachatter/status/1388157053844197378?s=21

People all out against the zero tolerance movement it seems.

I think I’d probably say I was sat eating my lunch.

But I do know the difference between less and fewer.

Stumbling in after an exhausting week ...

So after the debacle of a colleague direct teaching the extracts we have also discovered another colleague showed the exact wording of the exam questions. After a week of SLT interviewing my dept, Yr 11 and my HoD marking the whole year group’s first papers, it had been decided that exam will be scrapped and they’ll sit another paper. Am awaiting the flood of emails from parents.

I am seething at Ofqual and the Gov for putting us in this position

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9530483/Schoolgirl-12-suing-school-requiring-pupils-wear-face-masks.htm

This pupil is suing their Academy Trust for making her wear a mask. I bet she’s ‘that’ child. Would rather teach Bob.

mother the government screwed us all over, parents and students included. Unfortunately, they don't see that and feel as though it is all our fault. And it sounds like your colleagues are really messing up the whole thing, I hope their competence improves. Can you imagine if things like that weren't discovered until the exam board looked at evidence? Absolute nightmare.

jan honey I think the "of" instead of "have" is from the contraction "could've", doesn't make it any less infuriating though. I frequently correct spoken grammar to the inevitable chorus of "but this is maths, not English!"

mistress that's an awkward one. I hope you either puzzled it out or managed to sleep regardless!

The one that does drive me mad is laid. People aren't tables but they always seem to be 'laid down'.

I need to see Barry's 'sexist directives' because I can't get in a lather over detainees. It's a word that pre dates its asylum connotations and I do think a word can have two separate connotations.

By all means change it (although I can't think to what) but I do think this particular beef is being driven by those who are using it as leverage because they would like to see detention gone.

But I do expect there is far more stuff that Barry Sick Bucket is up to.

I think this is the shape of things to come with Gav's new focus on MATs and the behaviour hubs.

@HobnobbingAboutHobnobs

mistress that's an awkward one. I hope you either puzzled it out or managed to sleep regardless!

I did not, hobnobs. I'm still sitting here waiting for an English teacher.

Will a librarian do mistress?

It’s wrong (although I’d also use it, in the sense of ‘I was sat there wondering how to strike up a conversation’).

Now go to sleep!