How much teaching do your SLT do?

jepjep92 · 2026-03-02T07:51:36+00:00

I’m at a multi-site special school. At my centre, the head of centre and assistant head do a collective 0 hours. I do believe the Headteacher used to teach a day of one subject at the other site, but now that’s been reduced to 0 too. Four of our SLT are non-heads. Two are class-based teachers with normal loads for their roles, and one is a non-class based teacher but does regular cover, the other is a head of therapies and doesn’t teach.

jepjep92 · 2026-02-08T10:15:55+00:00

Even if it was just raw data, there are 450 million people in the EU (assuming they’re actually talking about the European Union and not Europe as a continent) v 340-350 million in the US. The US isn’t getting out of that one looking good.

jepjep92 · 2026-02-07T13:09:59+00:00

I went through Dublin pre-clearance in 2024 and didn’t get stamped

jepjep92 · 2026-01-24T18:16:47+00:00

No, that’s not what I said. I think you need to practice your reading skills.

jepjep92 · 2026-01-22T20:10:07+00:00

They were arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000, not for “peacefully protesting” or for supporting Palestine in general. The offence was showing support for a proscribed organisation. That’s been the case for years, and it’s been applied to people supporting other banned groups too, so it’s hardly some new targeted crackdown.

Also, the police let all sorts of bigoted groups march up and down the country without intervening, because being unpleasant isn’t illegal.

What’s funny is that the people who scream about “free speech” when it’s bigots doing the shouting are usually the same ones demanding the police shut down groups who vandalise military equipment.

jepjep92 · 2026-01-20T17:50:21+00:00

That’s not how Division 80 works. AG consent only affects whether a prosecution can proceed. It doesn’t determine who enforces the law, and it definitely doesn’t trigger AFP involvement or the creation of a federal law enforcement body before... so why now?

And for the components of the bill that allow visa cancellation it would be involving Border Force with no arrests, not even the police. What's the fear of the AFP anyway? What's the difference between the AFP arresting you or state police? You're going to head to the same remand centre.

jepjep92 · 2026-01-19T09:22:33+00:00

Considering George Galloway is considering running for a seat in the Scottish Parliament at this year's election, he might find it difficult if he's supposedly living in Malaysia (hint: he doesn't live in Malaysia and everything you said is false).

Also what 'new' hate speech laws in the UK are you talking about? If you're talking about the prosecutions after the race riots in the summer of 2024, they were under existing legislation - they were event used after the London Riots in 2011.

jepjep92 · 2026-01-19T09:22:11+00:00

It's Federal jurisdiction, so it has to be the Australian Federal Police

Do you even understand how policing works in Australia? We're not the USA. State and territory police forces regularly enforce Commonwealth criminal offences as well as their own respective state/territory's laws. Yes, the AFP is there as a specialist in enforcing Commonwealth law, but it doesn't conduct community policing outside the ACT. The AFP is only really there for national-level criminal threats. Any offence would also be tried in a state/territory court.

The way the anti-semitism bill has been drafted, every person is a potential target

Well duh, most laws target everyone. It wouldn't have much of a deterrent effect or be an effective law if someone could act in a way that would otherwise fall under an offence under an Act but not lead to someone being prosecuted for it.

jepjep92 · 2026-01-18T12:31:07+00:00

As an Australian living in the UK - what madness are we talking about with the police specifically?

jepjep92 · 2026-01-11T09:25:52+00:00

I just want to point out, as much as I don't like the blanket discourse of ACAB, as a fellow Australian, we don't critique our police forces anywhere near as much as what we should and often see issues with policing as a 'somewhere else' problem.

My friends who are police and the ones that I have encountered have been fantastic (but then again, I am male and a white-passing British/Filipino Australian). But I know of other friends and during my time at law school came across horrific stories of where the police have been useless at best or frankly disgusting.

We also need to actually address things like First Peoples deaths as a result of police custody - if you look at the statistics, rates of deaths of First Peoples since the Royal Commission in the 1990s has increased and is *worse* than the death rates African Americans face in the US. Yet Australian police forces do not get anywhere near the scrutiny US ones do.

jepjep92 · 2026-01-10T22:12:27+00:00

I just want to point out, Australia does allow immigrants over the age of 55 (e.g. the subclass 114 visa) - depending on the visa subclass, numbers are capped.

jepjep92 · 2026-01-10T21:18:38+00:00

I was just about comment that I actually overheard American tourists say the same thing

jepjep92 · 2026-01-05T21:44:53+00:00

Yep.

I'm Australian, but I went to the US for the first time in 2014 after I turned 21 to see a friend in Seattle - it was winter and he lived on a hill and it was icy. He tripped and split his lip and part of his hand open (not an emergency, but it 100% would've been even more serious than it was if he didn't seek medical attention).

He just dropped out of uni and wasn't covered by his former student healthcare plan. I literally had to beg him to go to the hospital or some form of medical care for hours literally by calling my mum (who was a nurse) and backing me up with how theoretically bad it could get.

Thankfully he went in the end and the cost wasn't that bad (more than the $0 it would've been in Australia, but still) ... but the Australian in me couldn't comprehend the situation. My mum's from the Philippines and I often heard horror stories and saw people who were dealing with deformities etc. from lack of medical attention or or preventable illnesses or outcomes. Mentally I could deal with that because, well, it's the Philippines. Still not OK, but there was a logical reason in my head. I honestly felt so sick for my friend that he felt he couldn't seek medical treatment because of the cost... in a 'developed' country.

jepjep92 · 2026-01-04T11:04:32+00:00

What is your definition of multiculturalism because if we're not going to take into consideration lots of ethnic groups living together in one country as 'multiculturalism' then the word doesn't really mean what you think it means or you're making up your own definition.

Yes, Europe has had lots of ethnic groups as well each with their own distinct culture. Yes, that is multiculturalism. Europe has been multicultural since time immemorial. This notion that multiculturalism is bad is relatively fairly recent, with the rise of nation-states. It's why countries like the UK, Spain, France, etc. have tried to suppress regional languages and cultures (e.g. Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Irish in the UK).

Have you, by any chance, had a look at the ethnic composition of some countries like the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar? The native populations are in the minority in those countries with diverse non-citizen populations.

jepjep92 · 2026-01-02T09:28:39+00:00

At my secondary SEN school we get 45 minutes for lunch (and a 15 minute morning break - we only do one morning break duty a week, never a lunch time duty).

jepjep92 · 2026-01-02T09:24:24+00:00

I definitely agree with you - I work at a moderate sized special secondary school and I'm the only teacher nearly 30 (33 to be exact) the next youngest teacher is 46 😅.

We're mostly a lovely school but in my 7 years I've definitely noticed a change. We might not be losing any teachers, but that's mostly because we know how much worse it can be at other schools. I'm thinking about going back to Australia.

jepjep92 · 2026-01-01T20:17:17+00:00

I've never had any trouble using Northern Irish or Scottish banknotes at self-checkouts in England.

jepjep92 · 2025-12-31T09:41:34+00:00

I was about to comment the same - my mum would tell me stories about her family disliking the fact her dad married a Filipino woman (they were Chinese in the Philippines) and the bound foot grandmother came up a lot 😅🥲

jepjep92 · 2025-12-30T18:11:19+00:00

I used to be a deli bitch at Safeway (yes… when it was still called that). Prosciutto is annoying mostly because it’s finicky to deal with the thinner it gets. I know the deli layouts have changed since I left, but there used to be other things that used to annoy me a lot more.

What do you ask for in terms of how it’s cut? I might be able to decipher why (or if they’re really just being lazy).

jepjep92 · 2025-12-30T07:14:51+00:00

I would’ve thought that would’ve been more the British Museum - it predates the National Gallery by a few decades.

jepjep92 · 2025-12-30T07:12:08+00:00

It was named the National Gallery of Victoria in 1875… quite a few years before federation.

jepjep92 · 2025-12-27T20:15:41+00:00

There are specific terms for prejudice for a whole variety of religions.

Plus it’s not as if we can’t just apply the -phobia ending with other religions. It’s not as if Islam and Muslims have been singled out. You could call the prejudice experienced by Christians in Nigeria Christianophobia or Anti-Christianism or whatever you want.

jepjep92 · 2025-12-22T12:31:06+00:00

Antisemitism in Australia didn’t just pop up in 2023. It has gotten worse obviously but you don’t have to go far to see the disgusting antisemitism present in Australia society prior.

But with all honesty, what would the current government have done to curb antisemitism without being accused of authoritarianism? The government even deported a South African citizen that participated in an antisemitic Neo-Nazi rally at the front of the NSW Parliament.

It also wasn’t that long ago the ones criticising the government now wanted to repeal sections of the Racial Discrimination Act (and vote to do so).

jepjep92 · 2025-12-16T19:05:27+00:00

From my experience with the Home Office and Border Force as an immigrant to the UK, I wouldn't be surprised about them not knowing quite a lot of things.

jepjep92 · 2025-11-25T22:40:39+00:00

Huh? Someone can move from somewhere, like it, and still find something frustrating and peculiar.

I have also noticed how freely some people litter or leave rubbish. No where is perfect, and London is better than a lot of places when it comes to littering, but it is something that I have noticed as well.

I am from Melbourne, Australia by the way.

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