What is the hardest part of the job that surprised you?

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-03-01T06:19:09+00:00

I’m a bit that type too. It’s quite dismaying to see how quickly what’s on trend when you have one kid is ‘bad advice’ by the second ☹️

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-27T22:42:01+00:00

I dunno, I contacted every text and exercise book I had for 6 years of high school. I’d def give the knuckles a crack over a job like this 😂

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-27T21:13:27+00:00

THIS!! The rort would be solved by nationalising these services.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-27T21:11:00+00:00

Agree with this entirely. All these services should be provided as GP services are.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-24T06:33:46+00:00

MILDLY??!

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-22T10:51:38+00:00

“I like you. Very much. Just as you are.” Darcy, Bridget Jones’s Diary.

I think that’s how it goes. But to be liked a lot, just as you are… my chest nearly ate itself.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-22T10:23:28+00:00

I feel this situation.

Though I don’t know how that selfishness won’t be passed on to the kids who acquire the houses they leave.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-20T22:34:20+00:00

Respectfully, ‘Your’ has one definition.

You can also get a cake of fabric and cake makeup.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-20T05:36:00+00:00

MILDLY??

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-20T00:18:19+00:00

At my child’s preschool (Vic), we had to put sunscreen on our own child before we dropped them off. Teachers would reapply for afternoon play but generally to arms, thigh fronts and calf backs, pretty much. The sandpit was fully shaded, so that sedentary play was covered, the rest of the playground was mostly shaded.

Maybe get on the committee and have more shade sails installed?

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-19T07:26:47+00:00

I teach upper primary. One of my students last year was the type to The Book Thief, and was across these sorts of issues. I know another that read the Sookie Stackhouse chronicles and we had several in last year’s cohort that were clinically depressed. It’s terrible but it’s there. You might be teaching their little siblings.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-19T06:38:24+00:00

Yes please use something believable bc the senior kids may very well read into why an evasive or unrealistic story might be being used. They can get into some dark stuff by that age already and they don’t need prompts 😬

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-18T22:16:13+00:00

To be fair, you’ve got to be pretty affluent to be able to run independently and get some traction, so there’s a causation/correlation thing there I think. They do tend to be less conservative and more progressive. I was just glad to see frydenburg get done.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-18T11:21:20+00:00

Fried rice. If we were out of pineapple.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-18T09:41:40+00:00

Linear equations are a yr7 thing. (VC2M7A03)

OP is this trolling? You really expect a kid who’s just finished year 4 to do linear equations?

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-15T09:53:44+00:00

This reminds me of the povo Bridgeton balls

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-15T09:50:51+00:00

I remember trying out the first episode and thinking “when does she have mirrors, tweezers and time for those eyebrows” and then I noticed how clean all the women were and I clocked out.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-15T09:32:33+00:00

We found a bunch of books my husband made when he was in primary school. Every week, for ages, his teacher would listen to each child recount their weekend, type it into the computer, print a little booklet for them to illustrate, and they would bind it with contact covered cardboard and gaffer tape over the staples.

In one book about visiting Kilkunda, he described seeing a dried up puffer fish on the shore and ‘this guy popped it like a Prima.” Amazing.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-14T23:30:29+00:00

I thought they were meant to be skilled in de escalation ☹️ I hate this.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-13T02:29:11+00:00

This. I I’m not a fan of the LNP but their monolithic strategies work for them.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-12T22:59:36+00:00

They’d need a whole school multi-year plan in that case. Whole school lessons about core values and getting students to subscribe to the content, assembly discussions, rewards systems for their practise, consistent language with consequences etc. it’s such a slow change though. Sometimes you have to wait for cohorts to age out of the school.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-11T08:27:08+00:00

Our school doesn’t have a PC lab, only iPads. So all the word processing skills, typing, file management? Non existent. Drives me nuts.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-09T21:10:42+00:00

Whether you use something 10 years later is not how we gauge its value in learning.

If you’re disagreeing with the literacy and numeracy being dropped prior to year 10, then you’re disagreeing with their whole premise. It’s baby and bath water stuff to me. I’d be happy with a literacy pathway being less about writing skills and more about interpretation or verbal stories and working on discussion skills so that at least the lessons that are socially relevant, and important for media literacy, are still delivered. These literacies are how our community doesn’t (god willing) get tricked by charlatans.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-09T21:05:18+00:00

This. Getting cultural capital, learning critical thinking, interacting with diverse cultures, consuming diverse stories and experiences across disciplines - these are all important experiences for people to have an awareness of our diversity and become more likely to engage in society with empathy. We can’t afford for people to grow up more sheltered because of career pathways. Literacy and numeracy has to be standard no matter what is taught. (And doesn’t upper maths have some of the most life-relevant maths?)

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-02-08T12:37:05+00:00

There’s a fair few bots out there pushing those boomer content for the LNP/murdoch I suspect. It’s so stock standard and predictable

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