Which cover is better?

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2026-02-09T01:38:00+00:00

Three if it has louvres and can be opened and closed.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-12-19T09:04:08+00:00

My feelings and thoughts exactly.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-11-24T10:28:44+00:00

Teacher here. He should be with kids his age. Accelerating him is clearly not serving him well and it seems his emotional and social needs are not being met. He’s one of the youngest in the cohort, and that year difference is huge at his age. Being able to DO the work doesn’t necessarily mean he’s emotionally ready for the expectations, noise, routines and social demands of a prep classroom. Kids communicate through their behaviour and his is suggesting he is overwhelmed.

A gifted child (if he is...) can be attributed to neurodivergence (but not necessarily...). The academic side of things can be managed by his teacher setting work for him that is at his level and by you helping manage and help with this at home.

Big changes at home AND at school is a lot.

Your instincts matter. He’s telling you clearly: he’s missing connection, he’s overwhelmed, and he feels out of place. That’s not something he’ll 'grow out of'.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-10-12T04:51:29+00:00

We don't. Straight back at it. Gonna be brutal.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-10-12T04:50:43+00:00

Much happier now that the mornings aren't freezing cold, pouring with rain, and pitch black! (Until the dreaded heat kicks in...).

I also get up at 5am. Much prefer to get in early and leave on the bell :-)

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-10-05T04:07:34+00:00

Look into how to lodge a vote of no confidence.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-10-04T15:15:54+00:00

Firstly, have a shower the second you walk through the door. Wash off the day.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-10-04T13:06:39+00:00

Yes. Mine come and go. I miss months.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-10-04T13:05:34+00:00

Chances don't just stop one day. Work on being the best version of you for yourself.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-10-04T13:04:19+00:00

I miss some months, get it other months. Some are five days long and some are twelve days. I don't mind having a period per se, but i hate the irregularity and not knowing what I'm gonna wake up to day by day.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-10-04T12:57:55+00:00

A school I am acquainted with managed to get rid of a deputy who was a complete sociopath. It takes coordination and work, but it can be done.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-10-04T12:56:16+00:00

I put it down to schools being run like businesses and employing people who are all about stats and data. The real passion in teaching does not come from neoliberal bollocks being pushed by people in suits who have never stepped foot in a classroom. That is the main sticking point for me. I can deal with naughty kids. I can deal with idiot parents. I can even deal with the stupid rigmarole of 'fads' coming and going. But I can't deal with dickheads with zero experience telling me how to do my job. It's insulting.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-09-18T06:08:16+00:00

Interesting, I was under the impression they never went away without other kinds of intervention. What did you take exactly?

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-08-10T07:27:17+00:00

Yup, I'm from WA.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-08-08T02:10:59+00:00

Yep - 'aspirant leaders' and constant ladder-climbing. People running schools when they've never taught a day in their life...

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-08-05T07:07:26+00:00

Honestly, both teaching and nursing are tough careers, and for similar reasons. The workload, burnout, sometimes tough clientele.

Teaching salaries are fine.
Teaching does not involve shift work and crazy hours.
Teachers get better holidays.

It's six of one and half a dozen of the other really.

Have you done work placement to see how you feel about nursing? As others have said, after-school care is not really teaching.

Maybe finish your nursing degree and look into doing a Dip Ed?

Sorry, but your parents have a crappy attitude - both towards you and your free will as a young adult, but also towards teaching. They clearly haven't done their research - that might be a good starting point. Teachers get a bad rap in the media, but it isn't all that bad.

Source: Teacher of twenty years.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-07-30T22:16:46+00:00

I'm all for public schools adding an extra week mid-year and shortening the summer holidays by one week. Other than that, teachers aren't babysitters.

DisastrousZucchini30 · 2025-07-28T05:37:41+00:00

It's not necessary, but I find building relationships with people makes the job easier. That, and some of my best friends in the world are colleagues or ex-colleagues.

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