The Sixty Third Republic - as we glide into staycations the DfE whip up anti-school media storm

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No, I'm thinking they want to recoup some of their losses. Might as well charge for what you can before you throw them all away.

I have a load to sell on.

4 days over 5 when one of those days is one lesson is a total piss take - therefore the person has an extra day of their week tied for the grand benefit of one extra non contact lesson Mon-Thurs? I thought mine was bad.

I think the 4 days person has pissed off the timetabler. They're a physicist not teaching a level now....

What's a Mumsnet OG?

Someone who tells a trainee teacher poster they're being rude and naive.
Basically, an enemy of educators.

Does it stand for anything?

Is that the same poster who has appeared under various guises this academic year? Glad I'm not their mentor.

What? What is this OG? I am confused.

I assumed Old Git but apparently it's "youff speak" for "old school". She thinks we're twats, basically.

Yes Herc
Like Bob, they keep coming back. Why is Bob never absent?

Why are you all speaking in code??

OG can be a compliment. Or that's what my year 11s told me.

The OG is the Original Guy.

OG means the original as in, Part One of the franchise series, or whatever. My DC use it a lot.

I think both our explanations are part of the same thing?

Yeah, it's Gangsta!

She does not mean it as a compliment!!

Well, she does not know her street speak then bruv.

I can see it could be meant as 'cock of the walk' or a clique but that isn't how my year 11s meant it when they said 'man, that Charles Dicken is the OG' (genuine comment!)

Oh it's definitely not a compliment! What trainee questions the interview lesson like that.... Wow.

*Dickens

MrsH, lola and their OGs.

I'd love to be gangsta.
Bob asked me the other day whether I read Shakespeare books in my spare time.

It's definitely meant as a dig. Us OGs are so terrible, give useless advice, and don't know what we are talking about, and yet despite us being so abysmal, clueless and unpleasant in multiple ways, it's worth asking advice here.

Hercisback
One who has gaps in their subject knowledge, if other threads are anything to go by. On other threads I have tried to mention subject knowledge is more than having a degree and that it's about having the right knowledge for the students in front of you, but it didn't go down well.

So MrsH and Lola think that they're the Original Gangstas of the MN staffroom 👀

We might need to take this outside....

I mean you have to be careful with me because I am an actual gangster. I know people.

Who wants to hold my coat....

Just let me finish my scheme of work first.

Is it wurf it, nob??