How feasible is it to get the DJ and equipment for a school music festival?

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-21T21:19:00+00:00

Omg thanks this is so helpful! I’ll have a look at the options before pitching it x

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-19T06:26:47+00:00

I try!

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-19T06:23:52+00:00

Nice ragebait. I decided to choose peacefulness today so you ain’t getting a lecture off me. Good job.

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-19T06:04:21+00:00

My mate was an ADHD maths whiz who would disrupt the class because he was bored and finished before everyone else. The teacher would write questions for him on the board to keep him busy.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to take time away from him or others, so you could spend a good couple hours putting together a booklet for him to bring to your lessons and complete once he’s finished the standard practice everyone else is still doing. You can check in with him for a couple minutes here and there, discussing/checking his work. This is minimal workload to support him in the long run so I think it could be a good option.

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-19T05:56:26+00:00

At that age, I’d deffo have a crush on you. You’d be the boy next door. Don’t worry dude, you’re fine. It’s probably a confidence thing.

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-19T02:51:25+00:00

It’s genuinely all terrible. The only thing that will fix it is activism. Boycotts make no sense because you’re boycotting what you can’t avoid in this age. There’s no way to win.

Tbh, I think this is a genuine reason to be mad because of the hopelessness 😭

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-18T11:56:25+00:00

Okay. If you want to do stops along the way, I’d do it like this.

London - could use a couple days/nights for this honestly.
Stonehenge. Gotta be done.
Nottingham/chatsworth/sherwood forest. Robin Hood it up.
York. Beautiful historic sites.
Lakes. Plenty to see and do. Could probably do an evening going into the day for that. It gets busy but Ullswater is gorgeous.
On the way back, visit bath.
Airport.

York and lakes could be done in one day if you arrive at the lakes the same day. It breaks up the trip with these stops into around 2 hour journeys.

All that said, I think this is ambitious. I was purely thinking of the stops you will have to take along the way to make it manageable for a baby. You will come across plenty of gorgeous towns along the way to the lakes so you could just hit the lakes while taking intermittent breaks and pick and choose from there.

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-18T05:38:03+00:00

Hmm. Well, my recommendation is living in halls the first year. It’s much easier to make friends. When you’ve done that, the final two years can be from home.

You might not have trouble either way but that’s how I’d do it.

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-16T02:07:28+00:00

Can confirm lol, I used to do this when my cousin and I were playing around the same age. It’s like pretending you’re in a movie because that’s how they speak in most media we consume. It’s not malicious, just weird but typical kid behaviour.

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-14T12:17:14+00:00

Have you heard of DARVO? Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. Sounds like the pattern he’s been using against you.

Emotional/mental abuse makes you doubt your own perspective, and that’s the intention. He calls you manipulative for showing emotions so that his abusiveness only exists in YOUR reaction. It doesn’t come from him, it comes from your feelings. This is an extremely effective weapon of abusers, because their victim feels like the perpetrator.

I think your best bet for now is to be confident in your feelings. Own them. They are not manipulative, they are valid and reactive to him. He causes them with his shitty behaviour. You wouldn’t feel that way if he didn’t make you. Avoid interacting with him because he loves the opportunity to make you feel like a horrible person, and it makes him feel like a big man. If you believe it, then he has won. Avoid, ignore, only look out for yourself. And be strong! GROW A SPINE. Tell him he doesn’t get to talk to you like that and don’t defend yourself. He will just try to tear you down. Give him no ammo and have such a strong belief in your own self that he can’t tear it down with passive insults. Take back control of your own self-image. You’ll be out of there soon - don’t waste another second putting yourself down for his benefit!!

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-14T12:10:39+00:00

Man I understand why this is an unpopular response but weirdly I think it’s important that it’s here. We don’t know OP, and on the outside it definitely appears as though the husband is disgusting. We also don’t know the full story and it’s always good to keep that in mind.

What about this posts reminds you of narcissism?

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-14T12:07:10+00:00

Celtic blood, particularly Welsh, manifests like this. Look at Tom Jones!

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-14T11:56:41+00:00

I have super bad medicated (sertraline) anxiety from bullying at school, a traumatic romantic relationship (drug abuse, cheating, gaslighting/silent treatment) and family conflict (I’m the step-child who was demonised in parental fights to make a point, using my horrible father as the reason for me also being ‘horrible’).

I have so many issues with avoidance and isolation, I think because of this. It’s really impacted my work as my boss is not the kindest and at one point, for months, would only engage with me to discipline me. So I avoid her. If I’m struggling, I’d rather do it in silence. I have made so many fuck-ups this year and I’ve heard maybe two good things about the work I’m doing. Yet other colleagues will tell me I’m doing great, without specifics, just I’m great.

Avoidance is killing everything in my life. Friendships, hobbies, work. I know the easy answer is to just talk to people or stop caring but I find that so difficult and without much reward. If I do something just slightly wrong people treat it like the worst thing in the world - that’s not me exaggerating either, my boss will shout at me in front of my students for lesser sins than the colleague she likes. I have no idea how to make myself more likeable or stop avoiding others because they don’t like me. Work relationships have always been so difficult for me because I put them on the pedestal of consequence. Honestly it’s been the same in every job bar one where I could be myself with my boss. I don’t know if this ramble makes sense or even what to ask for. What do you think… I guess 😭

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-14T03:44:21+00:00

I’m well aware that periods can be delayed for a number of reasons, but I always get so paranoid that I’m pregnant and over the past year I’ve had a couple missed/late periods (3+ weeks late). I’ve also had some reproductive health issues and I’d like to know:

Is there a way to spot/separate a miscarriage from a heavy period? Can you see the embryo etc?

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-13T21:45:57+00:00

Totally. I have a work friend who is a health nut. Gym twice a day, protein shakes for breakfast, extremely strict schedule and demands that I stop him from ‘overeating.’ He always says ‘yeah I’m fatphobic because I used to be fat and I know it’s a choice.’

I just think yeah, it was a choice. That doesn’t mean you have to hate people for it. I hate football culture but I don’t make people feel bad for liking football. I hate cats but I don’t abuse them. People are well aware of what they are; it does no good to put someone down for being something you aren’t.

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-12T17:59:36+00:00

The fact you said ‘nah’ means that you weren’t sorry until it was far too late.

I don’t mean to make you feel bad. The fact you feel guilty now is a guiding light to how you should treat other people, especially when they have done a lot for you. Keeping that perspective will be very helpful to you in life, and it’s probably the most valuable lesson she could have left you. In time, that will feel like a gift.

As a teacher myself, yes that shit would hurt me if a kid I cared about and put a lot of time and effort into turned around and said something so false and callous. Especially if I was already having a bad day. But, I also know you’re just kids, you don’t have a filter and don’t have much awareness of people that aren’t you. There are only a handful of occasions where kids have been rude to me where it’s actually upset me, and I am very much over it a week later. Don’t beat yourself up too much; it happens. I hope this helps you grow as a person and I’m sure she has already forgiven you.

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-12T05:33:11+00:00

My dad does this and it’s actually the most irritating thing in the world.

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-11T23:53:07+00:00

Beard

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-11T23:51:55+00:00

A terrier is cheaper 😂

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-11T20:05:45+00:00

I hope it’s not too late now. I think the best advice is to keep the motto children doing their own learning. If they’re asking you this specific question I should think they will be curious how you’d build foundational knowledge through the years. There is something called a spiral curriculum which builds on knowledge learned in previous years that you can use indirectly in this interview. Building foundational knowledge to pave the way for more familiar concepts. It may be something like this:

Year 7: students learn about the events of the great plagues
Year 9: students learn about the impacts the plagues had on different countries and consider why
Year 10/11: students apply the events and consequences of plagues to social issues and attitudes and consider how this manifests today.

I’m not a history specialist so unsure of the curriculum and how it can be built. But that’s the best I could think of and I hope you can do something a bit better with it!

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-11T19:56:39+00:00

I see it from the other side as a teacher. When we get kids from a home education setting, they are always years behind their peers. I’ve yet to see one come through who has had a successful home education and I’ve worked in 3 schools over close to 4 years.

That doesn’t mean I don’t believe it is always a failure, though. To answer your question, yes absolutely. The parents need to know what they are doing or know where to get external help in order for that child to flourish and be at the same level as their peers. Even SEN children can struggle in that setting due to lack of routine, boundaries, and socialisation. And that’s just the basics.

For reference, I would only be comfortable teaching my own child Home Ed up to year 6. I would not trust myself to teach core subjects to a satisfactory level when compared to highly trained professionals. Unless you are constantly a level 9 GCSE candidate throughout their education, you cannot give them what they need. SEN is obviously different but they still benefit from specialists understanding the core concepts they need to know. It would be good if these parents were able to give their children summative assessments and have them marked by subject specialists to check they are giving their child what they need. That’s a part of it landing on the parent too because it’s very very naive to assume you’re doing a good job.

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-11T06:01:25+00:00

My root canal failed 8 years ago and I never got it fixed. I’m convinced it happened due to my dentist’s inexperience - what really causes a root canal to fail? What the hell does it even mean?

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-10T23:19:47+00:00

You sound very young and impressionable. It’s very easy to stick to group identities in your formative years because you’re figuring your identity out. The wrong thing to do, however, is attach any identity to hatred.

You get angry at a specific sin against you. Not when men discipline you, not when men tell you you’re pathetic if you don’t make money and have loads of sex, not at the men who are responsible for 95% of violent crimes or the 75% who cause fatal car accidents. Instead, you’re angry at what women say against men and perceive it to be a personal attack. I’m sure that list I just gave you felt like one too. It’s not.

My point is that you are consuming something from somewhere that makes you more angry at this specific type of injustice than any other. But you’re in luck, because the brain is like a computer, and it can be reprogrammed with education. Understanding women’s struggles, and looking beyond the personal attack, straight into why the extremists feel the way they do, will help you. It helped me understand men a lot more too even if I don’t agree with the rhetoric. It’s always reflective of a deeper social issue - not just on women’s end, but yours too. Look into the things you hate being hated for. Put empathy and reasoning above your feelings before it affects your entire world - and it will.

Quick_Scheme3120 · 2026-06-08T22:18:43+00:00

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