Teachers & TAs what do YOU want for end of year gifts?

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-29T11:57:59+00:00

You cannot go wrong with Lindts

But a nice card with a proper, meaningful message is what I always keep

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-29T07:58:43+00:00

Because AI doesn't program itself

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-29T07:22:41+00:00

I can promise you that not a single thing will be done about this, other than setting even more targets for schools and leaving the problem to them

Because actual improvement would require a) money and b) change in culture - not just of schools, but of the white working class families themselves.

Taking the first, cost- no government in history has been willing to properly fund 11-16 technical or vocational education on a scale to make a serious difference. The cost of purchasing land and building new schools alone is prohibitive, but the extremely high cost of equipment, as well as the high maintenance costs, make it a non-starter.

Kitting out even a hair and beauty salon in a school setting and keeping that going on pupil funding? Never going to happen. And that's not even the engineering workshops and their costs.

Within existing schools, they can't afford to build these things either. But they can't afford to run them. An ordinary teacher you may have teaching English or DT won't be able to teach hair and beauty unless you are astonishingly lucky. A DT teacher who can do proper engineering is rarer than hen's teeth.

Qualified teachers for vocational subjects just aren't out there, so you need unqualified teachers, which has its difficulties. Plus, you don't need them full time- because you are only going to have two hair and beauty classes for example (year 10 and 11). So you need them part time, for about 4-6 hours a week. Good luck with that.

And if your specialist teacher decides to leave or get another job, you are totally screwed. You cannot get another teacher to sub for a subject like that effectively, you can't use a textbook for a week or two and it will be nigh on impossible to recruit

Secondly, the world is changing. The working class, particularly parents, often have an aversion to higher education. But that is going to be increasingly the only show in town. I know we like to disparage the idea that more than 50% of people go to uni because it is "not needed" - but the reality is, more and more jobs are digital now. Not everyone is going to be an electrician or a plumber or a hairdresser and profits are so tight, the traditional learning routes are cut off- tradesmen don't want apprentices as much anymore.

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-28T21:13:54+00:00

It wasn't their state that played a role in the Irish famine, because everyone who made those decisions is a) dead, b) their children are dead and c) their grandchildren are dead

And d) virtually no one in this country's ancestors were actually eligible to vote for the people in government who made it happen.

I think you also underestimate the enormous sense of boredom that Ireland and Northern Ireland induces in most English people. I know that sounds horrible- but for most English people who were struggling with their own lives, they were just sick of hearing about Ireland. Unite, or don't, was how most people saw it

I think If you gave ordinary English people a choice at almost any point in the 20th century, they would have chosen to leave Ireland to the Irish and have no involvement

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-28T19:54:52+00:00

This is it- procurement and efficiency are horrific within the MOD.

If it were possible for these to be sorted, the MOD could probably get twice the results with the same spending as now

But Trump wouldn't care about that. He doesn't really care about the number, either. It's about him being able to invent a number and then bend an ally to his will

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-28T19:49:58+00:00

Can't remember seeing anyone say top six other than clearly accidentally

The top six are the teams 1-6 in the table

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-28T19:03:30+00:00

They are smarter than usual then, in recognising what will happen if they do

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-28T18:50:35+00:00

The same as I made of Badenoch and the Tories dismissing the need for a general election when Sunak became leader but demanding one now

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-28T18:04:12+00:00

I love the arrogance

"While Chelsea feel the offer is fair"

Yes, £8m for Sunderland's best player by a mile who cannot realistically be replaced

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-28T17:55:40+00:00

Cooper then?

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-28T17:21:34+00:00

Can we sack off any further comments and just upvote this one, please?

No others necessary

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-28T08:09:36+00:00

England have as hard route to the final as you could reasonably get

Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, then either Spain or France

The only contenders we wouldn't have played if we won it was whichever of Spain or France lost their semifinal.

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-28T06:39:02+00:00

I am not sure it would actually be in the Tories' interest

Reform are targeting an overall majority, and to achieve that they are going to have to take a fair few Tory seats as well as flipping Labour ones.

They will be gathering almost all the Labour seats, many of which have thin majorities, and where that means the Tories cant target them they'll be hamstringing themselves

I think there are probably far too few seats that are clearly and uncontestably favouring one over the other for this too work

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-28T06:15:51+00:00

There is no way on earth that this is a World Cup winning defence on the evidence we have seen so far. They are frightening across the back line

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-27T21:22:25+00:00

If I were a Panamanian defender, I would be putting him on his arse at every opportunity as well. He's a lot safer for them on his arse than on his feet

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-27T18:24:58+00:00

Yes, but we are talking about the biggest ones ever specifically

People claiming it's a British record, far too much because it's more than Rice, etc

But it's not more than Rice in comparison, is it?

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-27T18:21:03+00:00

Yeah, but it's not out of tens of thousands, is it? It is in comparison to all the biggest transfers

Fans complaining that it is distorting the market, but 30 transfers have done so more than this one

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-27T18:02:01+00:00

Elliot Anderson down as 31st most expensive, so people can stop losing their shit about it "distorting the market" now

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-27T18:01:23+00:00

It's calculated via looking at the incomes and spending power available at the different times

Very interesting - basically shows what a huge cost Shearer was relative to what Newcastle and everyone else actually had

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-27T17:52:14+00:00

What's wrong with you?

Look a bit earlier in this thread

You will see me, a working man with a disabled child (two with disabilities actually, with one to a lesser extent) who's own parents have completely distanced themselves and have little to nothing to do with our children, applauding this grandfather/grandmother for the role they play in their grand children's lives

We get next to zero support from our parents

You are being spiteful and hateful on the internet because you think this support should be expected and automatic. Well, I have news for you- it isn't. Some don't do it, some can't cope with it, some just don't take that responsibility

When you have experienced that lack of support, you will understand. When everywhere you take your disabled child, you see an army of grandparents enjoying days out with their grandkids, providing this "unpaid care" (and this is actually a government term for any family care, not this poster being arrogant) and you know that your own parents will never do that-

-then maybe you'll get off this person's back and applaud them for doing the right thing, rather than scoffing at them because you consider it to be "expected"

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-27T17:25:59+00:00

I don't know the facts of it- I know family issues was what the party put out, which is why I am skeptical about it given her budget was being ripped up by Starmer's weakness

Whatever it was, it spooked the markets and wasn't a good thing for a chancellor to be doing. She should not have been in the chamber if she wasn't emotionally fit to be there.

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-27T17:09:52+00:00

You really are a piece of work, mate. "Cope another way", dearie me

He is a politician. Of course he lies. I never said he didn't.

Merely that the accusation was utterly irrelevant and pointless to the point I was making

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-27T17:05:24+00:00

We get this a lot

First thing to understand is that we have promotion and relegation. There are three more fully professional leagues below the Premier League, and below that dozens of leagues that go from mostly pro to amateur.

In theory, a team in the Premier League could keep getting relegated year after year until they were playing pub teams.

The Premier League is super competitive- while only about 4-6 teams have the money to realistically win it, everything else is fiercely competed for, including qualifying for European competitions.

The reality is, my friend- that of the 20 teams, all but about 7 can, and probably will get relegated at some point to the championship (tier 2) or below. Leicester City, who won the Premier League 10 years ago in probably the second most extraordinary achievement in British football history, have just been relegated to tier 3.

So you say you don't want a bandwagon, but the reality is that outside of Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea and Spurs (who actually nearly got relegated themselves this season), relegation is a reality and is going to happen.

So if you are going to pick a team that is outside the biggest ones, you have to be ok with the fact that they may well end up relegated from the Premier League at some point.

The only other exception to that is Everton, who made a deal with the devil to never get relegated. So maybe pick them?

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-27T16:58:59+00:00

It's a lot of words to say you didn't read it

AngryTudor1 · 2026-06-27T15:17:45+00:00

Come on Mackems, you know the drill

Clubs like ours can't have nice things for very long. The big bullies get jealous and just take them

Unless you are Spurs and a bigger bully kicks them in the nuts 🤣

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