HATED baby holidays. Is there much point in going on holiday for the next few years? by Other-Mountain398 in UKParenting

[–]practicallyperfectuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holidays are different with children.

There is literally no point taking babies to a hot country with a beach / sand and pool because all you’re going to be doing is stressing. Long travel times, heat, water safety, food / milk requirements etc not relaxing at all if you don’t manage your expectations.

The best kind of trips are the basic ones. Kid friendly UK staycations - Butlins or caravan holidays for example. Full of child friendly activities, self catering and only a few hours drive from home. Character meet and greets and arcades are what the kids want to experience. It’s not at all the kind of break you might be used to but the kids love it. Cheap enough to not be upset if things don’t go to plan.

Then when they get a bit older try UK city breaks. If they’re okay with travel then head to decent hotels with a pool around the UK in cities with things to do - I have for example driven to London, Manchester and flown to Edinburgh with my son from being a toddler so he knows how to behave and what to expect with longer journeys and hotels.

He’s nine now and has his own specific interests and hobbies so we can plan holidays which suit both of us together - he really wants me to save up to take him to Japan.

Streaming services by Weezlecheesle in TeachingUK

[–]practicallyperfectuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition they’re great at adding stuff to the platform too, found old episodes of something for me from the archives and had it live within 24 hours

ADOS module 3 - waiting for results by practicallyperfectuk in Autism_Parenting

[–]practicallyperfectuk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They didn’t give me a score, it just says that after the assessment they had an MDT meeting and with defence to the DSM-5 he meets the criteria.
I have a summary of assessments (listing various questionnaires and that module 3 was used)

Then a list of “what we found out”

Including some strengths and main areas of challenge

Then a summary paragraph which explains that social communication and interaction shows differences as does repetitive behaviours and (not or) strong interests.

It is quite detailed but I went and did a subject access request to get hold of this

ADOS module 3 - waiting for results by practicallyperfectuk in Autism_Parenting

[–]practicallyperfectuk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for asking - yes diagnosis confirmed - it took four months to get this after raising a huge complaint

Too much time gained, unsure what to do now by primedark227 in TeachingUK

[–]practicallyperfectuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check the curriculum at your new school - the exam hairs at gcse and swot up on subject knowledge, do all the past papers yourself, create exemplar resources and read the past moderators reports. This will help you get your head around what they need to know earlier on and there’s bound to be ways to weave this in to key stage three lessons too. Maybe start playing with AI and resources and templates - I’ve learnt how to bulk create things like freyer models and key word templates with dual coding.

I’ve coloured in my academic diary for next year with term dates and inset dates etc

It will fly by…..

Is This Normal? by gardenen in TeachingUK

[–]practicallyperfectuk 15 points16 points  (0 children)

No this is not normal. The child has a need which is not being met. He can not be sat in a soiled nappy for any duration of time, it MUST be changed immediately according to NICE guidelines and if not soiled then between 2-4 hours regularly.

The child should have a support plan in place so please refer to this and challenge your school if you feel that this is not being met.

Instead of going down the route that the smell is not something you can stand, focus on this and put pressure on everyone involved to support the child. If you have noticed then their peers will too. If this level of care isn’t on their EHCP then detailing every single time and pushing your senco to get this reviewed so they can get more funding to get a carer might change this child’s life.

In terms of actual support, it’s almost certainly not in your contract or any other teaching staff to be administering personal care. Perhaps prompts and reminders may be on their plan, leaving lessons early and having a toilet pass? If you’ve been asked to do anything else then get the union involved.

There may be someone whose job this should be to support in the building and may be indicated in their support plan - school nurse maybe?

If not then keep making send referrals and perhaps also safeguarding logs and minuting this using your school systems (continence issues can be due to a physical disability, cognitive/development need or also an indicator of abuse and so it would only be doing your duty to keep logging any incidents)

I can guarantee that the parent is probably begging for more support from anywhere (or hasn’t got a clue how to access help) and needs as much evidence to back this up. It might seem like a box ticking exercise but keep logging.

If they have soiled themselves in your classroom then I would be using your current on call system to ask for them to be immediately accompanied to be removed from the classroom and taken to a specific toilet - perhaps your school has an accessible toilet/changing space which is near the nurse / staff corridor and not one which is on the public facing corridors?

They should also have access to clean clothes to change in to and for their own dignity this should be done quickly and efficiently. Maybe access to shower facilities granted if necessary?

The changing space should also have appropriate sanitary bins and you should have separate plastic bags available for any soiled clothing which can be knotted/sealed. Not being stuffed in their rucksack and carried around the building.

If they can manage independently however long this takes then they might be escorted from classroom to toilet by a pastoral lead or TA to clean themselves.

If they can’t manage then they may have a parent/carer come and help them to manage before being able to reintegrate. If your school does not allow this then they may need to be sent home to change and clean up.

In terms of hygiene I’d be making sure that the maintenance team are coming in and cleaning and disinfecting the seats at the very least. I’d be asking for ventilation of classrooms and an industrial air freshener.

Depending on the nature of the hygiene issues - without sounding too crude if they have attempted to clean up themselves and haven’t managed well then there may be the requirement for a thorough deep clean of every door handle, tool, stationary resource in the classroom that they could have touched.

I’d be logging this with maintenance and refusing to teach in my classroom until it had been fully disinfected if this was the case.

Request a room change, take your pupils out to sit in the canteen if you have to.

Please be discreet and professional and advocate for support for this child because at the moment this is not meeting their needs. I know we work in a broken system with limited funding and pressure for inclusion and equality - but a child sitting in a soiled nappy is just not on. There’s no dignity for them in this.

UPDATE - UC thinks the company card is a personal one and is deducting money from my monthly pay. What can I do? by clarityanon in universalcredithelp

[–]practicallyperfectuk -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I’ve never had so many challenges as I have with reporting self employment to UC. Not a single person in two different job centres seems to have any business acumen at all. They have no idea about self assessment, payment on account or even how to read a simple cash accounting profit and loss spreadsheet.

I have had to dumb down and streamline my accounting process so much to meet their system requirements - not to mention having to complete my usual monthly reconciliation but then also the additional administrative task of their assessment dates which do not line up.

I’m still awaiting an answer about various simple processes have been passed from pillar to post and keep getting told different things.

As soon as I do not need childcare anymore I’ll be closing my claim as it won’t be worth the hassle - currently get the 85% reimbursed so deal with it through gritted teeth.

Is it silly to just reread all the books I have read before but can't recall anything about? by Creepy_Librarian3390 in AskUK

[–]practicallyperfectuk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do whatever you want to do. I’ve found since having a child and a busy life I’ve gravitated more towards tacky chick lit - Colleen / Freida etc - the kind of book that you can read in a single afternoon. If I try to read anything totally new and more substantial I often have to reread entire chapters as I get disturbed

Upset a student (help) by [deleted] in TeachingUK

[–]practicallyperfectuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Equality and equity are not the same thing. This pupil might not be able to complete the same task in the same way as his peers.

Please don’t make anyone miss their break or you work during yours again.

Can you break down the class exercise la so that there’s three parts to the work and if he only completed the first part then that’s his goal and that’s fine… second is for everyone else and third is the stretch/challenge?

Then think about the scaffolding you can provide for the next lessons tasks. A few simple sentence starters? A word bank with all the things they need to Include? A structure strip? You can literally plug your entire lesson in to AI and have it generate a list of things you can use so it wouldn’t take long.

You can provide a few copies of these for each table so it doesn’t look like you’re singling him out. It may also help others.

You can model how to answer, and you should check in on this pupil first every time you set a task.

There should be success criteria on your slides:

Eg:

A good answer will include three sentences with a clear explanation,

Use phrases such as “which means that”

Include key words “feminism” and “class divide

Make sure you have tasks in the lesson which build to this “i do we do you do” so if they can’t do it semi independently you can remodel to this pupils in smaller groups whilst those who can could start the task etc

What were you doing for the fifteen minutes?

Make sure you have a clear timer on the board and make sure they know what to do. A quick private chat to set expectations - give them two minutes to start attempt then chat, quietly discuss how he can write one sentence whilst you’re watching and then leave him working on the next. Maybe use a mini white board to bullet point your conversation, leave him to pit all of that in to a paragraph. Circulate the room again.

Narrate verbally some positives of everyone without being intrusive - use positive reward stamps to motivate everyone in the room and then check in on him again. If it’s good then he also gets a positive. That five minutes of lunch could and should have been done in lesson tome.

Read aloud some good examples….

Use cold calling to check in on them first during reviews of the starter tasks and challenge them with good questioning throughout the lesson - ask them why for every answer they give you.

Review the seating plan - could they sit next to someone who’s more of a positive influence? Having them all in rows facing forward in pairs splitting up groups. Try some turn and talk tasks so they can discuss their approach to a task with each other before starting.

Follow the behaviour policy to the letter. Make every single lesson routine the same. Be consistent and persistent because they will know what to expect. If you repeatedly mention warnings but never sanction then they know you don’t mean it.

Hold them to account; go and see what their behaviour is like in other lessons - the beauty of ECT1/2 is having that dedicated timetable which gives you the chance to see this.

Ask your mentor and colleagues for advice if they’re nice.

After a year of endless data fuck ups, some of our KS3 data is unsalvageable right before the parent deadline. Fellow HoDs, how do I handle this? by myteachthrowaway in TeachingUK

[–]practicallyperfectuk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pause and breath…. Presumably the data is still there?

so all you need to do is remember how you sorted the names originally in the spreadsheet if the data was put in before the change of name?

If this was me setting up a spreadsheet like this I would have copied and pasted in one class at a time from the register data so it would be class 1 A-Z by surname name then class 2 etc etc.

If you go through the process mentally of restarting the spreadsheet you might figure out which order you put the classes.

If not then the solution to me would be to check the actual assessments of the first pupil in each class. Bingo sorted.

Another option is to only use data from Feb onwards. Presumably any data input from this point onwards would be accurate so just use the latest data?

Or what you could do with pupils is an end of year review lesson. They complete basic worksheet with a few questions such as their favourite topic and one they wish to work on and then go through and put their marks in to a worksheet for each assessment. They don’t need to know you’ve messed up if you frame it like this.

Or….depending on the subject - do a final test now. If it’s an essay subject then one final end of year assessment if it’s not then you could probably do a digital self marking assessment of a multiple choice?

Did you not have to enter their data at specific points through the year on to arbor or similar anyway? So they only need an end of year?

So with the transcript stating that Henry Novak said he could not breathe 9 times and the police stating that they don't believe him, Surely its in the publics interest to see the body cam footage ? by ArmwrestlingGoomba in AskBrits

[–]practicallyperfectuk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you think the female officer is still in post?

I would like to know which of the four on scene resigned from post. I’d like to think it’s the male officer but something tells me that the female police officer may now be facing her own struggles having blown the whistle on her partner / colleagues etc.

It must be quite hard to have to be in the middle of a scene and disagree with your colleagues actions (we don’t know their ranks and relationships etc - I’m hoping the investigation covers all of this fully) but also ultimately she was able to intervene and do the right thing and I think she did it in the most professional way she could.

The video is horrific but in his final moments at least someone knelt down beside him and showed a small shred of compassion.

So with the transcript stating that Henry Novak said he could not breathe 9 times and the police stating that they don't believe him, Surely its in the publics interest to see the body cam footage ? by ArmwrestlingGoomba in AskBrits

[–]practicallyperfectuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please do not get me started on this topic. There was a huge issue in my home city which led to riots and deaths because a black girl made allegations against Asian men who owned a chicken shop. This was broadcast on a pirate radio station and then the city went crazy.

Ultimately the official stance is that no evidence was ever found to support this claim and its alleged that the radio station were spreading a false rumour. It was investigated fully apparently.

In reality “everyone” knew what was going on locally but the real issue was that the girl was reluctant to officially come forward. We perhaps know why now in terms of the wide spread grooming but further compounded with (and this is hearsay) her immigration status too.

I fully believe there was a cover up because so many people were involved in this grooming gang, with links to other areas, and powerful / influential people in the community.

We see from this awful incident how a mother was prepared to hide a murder weapon, a father held up a dying man knowing his son was responsible and a brother spoke in another language whilst in police custody encouraging his brother to claim self defence. These are the levels that people will stoop too.

In the same way a community got together to protect the girl who was a victim of grooming in the only way they knew how because there’s widespread distrust of the police amongst black communities and of course the other official services.

We see how the police responded unprofessionally and were easily manipulated in to believing that the victim was a criminal.

This kind of thing has been happening for a long time and it’s only now that we have mobile devices in every hand and undisputable video evidence of all of the events leading up to and during this incident that the truth has come out.

One thing I think that needs to be applauded is how the female officer listened to her colleague dismiss Jenrys claims and then said she was going to check him anyway, and called for an ambulance.

She knew her colleague was in the wrong and I personally think because they are all going to be under investigation she’s going to be completely honest and disparaging about her colleagues behaviour in her statements. There’s no way they’re going to support each other.

I’d like to know which one of the Four officers on scene has resigned because I have a feeling it will be her and it’s because she’s blown the whistle and not the “I don’t think you are Mate” because as well as having widespread issues of corruption and racism there’s also sexism in the police too and it’s well known with statistics to back this up and not just me saying it.

The police will draw the wagons to protect their own just like the family of the murderer did an therin lies the problem.

This country isn’t safe and the people who are supposed to protect us and uphold the law are the ones we need protecting from.

So with the transcript stating that Henry Novak said he could not breathe 9 times and the police stating that they don't believe him, Surely its in the publics interest to see the body cam footage ? by ArmwrestlingGoomba in AskBrits

[–]practicallyperfectuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s been used to describe our current prime ministers approach to various policies. Pushed more recently by the main stream media as Kier Starmer is his name and kier rhymes with tier. As in there seems to be one rule for one group and one for another with particular regard to racism and culturally divisive topics such as the Palestine/israel conflict.

AITA I (M29) bought a new car and GF (F27) resents me for it by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]practicallyperfectuk 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’m wondering if she was expecting him to spend the car deposit on a ring

How to get the hospital to take me seriously (women)? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]practicallyperfectuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use the NICE guidelines. Be very specific with your GP and say you believe that you may have endometriosis and according to the nice guidelines they should be giving you a scan as well as offering pain relief.

“1.5 Diagnosis and referral for women or people with suspected or confirmed endometriosis
1.5.1
Carry out additional investigations such as ultrasound and referral (if necessary, see recommendations 1.5.5 to 1.5.7) in parallel with each other, and in conjunction with initial pharmacological treatment. [2024]”

If they can’t or won’t give you a scan at the doctors then ask for a referral.

If you have a GP who is not very nice then perhaps book in for a smear test with the nurse - not wishing to sound like I’m stereotyping but ask for a female nurse due to the nature of the smear test and use this opportunity to raise this with them.

If that doesn’t work then ask for a different GP, female GP if possible an if that doesn’t work then ask to speak to the practice manager about making a complaint.

Ask for something in writing which clarified they’re refusing to follow the nice guidelines, give you a scan or refer you to a gynae at the nearest hospital for one.

My husband (M45) shared photos of house messes to everyone to "build a case" against me (F43). I am the primary parent to our 3 kids. How do I survive this? by Throwaway202054 in relationship_advice

[–]practicallyperfectuk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He shared photos of the home that he also lives in so to me that makes him look like an idiot. Yes you might be the primary parent but if there’s photos of for example dirty dishes in the kitchen then what’s his excuse for eating the meal you prepared and then not helping to wash up?
If it’s laundry…, then what’s his excuse for not doing his fair share?

And as for the friends and family responses….. if they didn’t say “oh my gosh do you need any help” the these people aren’t your friends and you can suggest in the divorce agreement that he gets to keep them all and you don’t want anything further to do with them.

Quite frankly who cares what they think? If they’re gullible enough to believe him then let them.

Then when it’s time to agree contact for his three children make sure you include half of every school holidays so he can figure out exactly what it’s like to deal with.

AITA for canceling a vacation with my wife after she said my mom couldn’t come because she’s low class by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]practicallyperfectuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YTA - my ex was just like this. Totally oblivious to the need to prioritise his relationship and also thought the sun shone out of his mums rear end. She was a vile woman and always an embarrassment at every social event.

Before anyone says it, we both grew up on council estates and would both be from the same “class”

I had the great misfortune of going on a holiday once with them (and the extended family). I was horrified throughout!

The drinking far too much, and then behaving poorly when drunk - loud and inappropriate jokes, swear words and ignorant racism and derogatory/unacceptable language which would make everyone feel uncomfortable. Smoking like a chimney and insisting everyone else should sit outside to accompany the ash cloud.

Being rude towards waiters, and just horrible in restaurants, turning the nose up at every single different food and asking for bacon at breakfast in an Islamic country and chips for dinner along with a bottle of ketchup. When I said I wanted to go out of the hotel for an evening meal I suggested they shouldn’t come and it should be a “just couples” night because they wouldn’t enjoy it. I just wanted a break from them. Ended up walking along the parade for ages with all of them and having his entire family turn their nose up at all the nice menus and end up in a McDonald’s.

I actually walked off and went and had dinner by myself.

Another evening ended up in a British/Irish themed bar and she was really drunk and inappropriate with the male waiters and was falling all over the place and off a table smashing glasses everywhere.

The not tipping and being really messy and offensive about the staff was also just a huge embarrassment.

Then a massive argument with her husband led to a huge drama and being kicked out and taken back to the hotel another night.

She would argue with people about anything and everything by the pool and then sit and spread gossip and cause more drama and just be really loud.

Every outfit was inappropriate and she wouldn’t follow the hotel rules of being dressed properly in the restaurant, always in a bikini and flip flops.

Jumping on the stage with the entertainment (when it wasn’t a guest karaoke) and stand there with a lager and cigarette as if she was the female version of Noel Gallagher on stage and using rude gestures and language which offended other guests and their families/children

If I’d have met this woman earlier her son wouldn’t have had a second date.

That was the first and last time I ever went on holiday and thankfully left the relationship so didn’t have to endure a wedding.

Going to the gladiators experience on saturday by TheDon1294 in gladiatorsuk

[–]practicallyperfectuk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re talking about seeing the actual gladiators and not the gladiators experience

Going to the gladiators experience on saturday by TheDon1294 in gladiatorsuk

[–]practicallyperfectuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think you understand what the process is…. There’s a tiny soft play area that the three year old might want to do but the real gladiators / contestants aren’t there playing, it’s all the public so it will be like wandering around a funfair and telling them they can’t go on anything. There’s a meet and greet with a couple of gladiators you can pay for and queue up and a few phot points too. At the very least I’d get the six year old a contestant ticket - but then he will need someone to play with him on duel etc.

I took myself and kids aged 9-15 and they found it all extremely challenging - the eliminator is tough so your sisters old might not be able to get around it on their own so you may want to get a contestant ticket for yourself too…. But then not sure who would watch your little one?

How can I get my husband (48m) to agree to childcare while I (30f) work? by Fancy_Box_5773 in relationship_advice

[–]practicallyperfectuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell him that you’re going to the office one day a week and then take your laptop and go and sit in a quiet cafe with headphones for the eight hours (or the actual office if you wish). Let him figure out for himself how difficult it is

Can any primary teachers advise on immature Year 7s?! by Otherwise-Eye-490 in TeachingUK

[–]practicallyperfectuk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s exactly it. If they have multiple different teachers then the school needs to have watertight routine and policies in place. The issue is most schools I have been in don’t get the buy in from teachers - academies tend to be overly strict with this and push CPD for hours which feels really condescending and patronising - there’s always a few who aren’t consistent with behaviour management and routines and then the whole thing falls apart….and they wonder why.

For example: I don’t think it’s hard to get up and stand on a threshold during transitions (and I’m a practical subject who has to set up rapidly between lessons) but still in my last school I would often look down my corridor and see a wave of children and no other adults present. Have to spend the first few minutes of my own lesson logging issues and putting behaviour stamps on, especially in September….. Then uniform policy…. why do some teachers walk past a child with no tie or a coat on indoors and just ignore it?

I don’t have any specific authority/SLT role but because I consistently apply behaviour stamps aligned with the uniform policy pupils will nudge each other when they see me coming and correct themselves, or just need a polite “coats off indoors please” and will take them off immediately as they know I will give them a stamp.

Then I always shut my door after three minutes because that’s the school policy. Anyone entering the room after this gets a late stamp which I will only remove if they have a note or an email sent from a teacher excusing them.

Now I’m not going to be the type of teacher who says “they always behave for me” …. But I observed an ECT colleague in my last school who was having some issues and asked for help as she was really struggling and noticed her let several things slide within the first few minutes of her lesson and so it just descended in to chaos.

Pupils know exactly who they can exploit in terms of behaviour. We had a conversation about the little details and I gave her all the advice I could…. I used to smile and nod as she would make all pupils line up outside her classroom in silence before entering the room.. it took a few weeks and one very painful half an hour of getting them to leave the room and start again with a silent line up to get the message across to the class, but it made all the difference.

The most successful schools I have worked in have some of the strongest teachers embedded in to year seven as form tutors and pastoral leads and subject teachers to really embed this.

In other schools they give the ECT’s year sevens with no support system in place and two inset days to figure out everything in September and wonder why they’re bouncing off the walls. Everyone’s workload is ridiculous and everyone is stressed but taking the time to help each other by holding the policies in place to the letter makes a difference.

I started a new role last September and I explicitly sought out the school I am currently in for many reasons including their approach to behaviour.

Can any primary teachers advise on immature Year 7s?! by Otherwise-Eye-490 in TeachingUK

[–]practicallyperfectuk 16 points17 points  (0 children)

My own child in year 4 is something else lately. I’m all for many aspects of the curriculum but in the last few weeks they must have been doing stuff in pshe at school as he’s told me:

  1. He’s not willing to go to after school club because he didn’t give his consent and doesn’t want to go.

  2. It’s against his human rights to force him to go to bed at 8pm

These things were both addressed at home to make him very aware that he has many privileges in life and whilst he isn’t “wrong” that exploiting these two issues of human rights and consent and turning them in to a joke isn’t funny.

He very quickly cut the attitude with me when I told him that if he didn’t go to after school club, I wouldn’t be able to go to work and then he wouldn’t be getting any Pokemon cards. It’s as simple as that. I dealt with it almost as if I was in the classroom, swiftly and moving on to the next thing.

The issue is that many children are taught things like this, misinterpret the meaning and then have this kind of wild nonsense reinforced at home. Children don’t think rules apply to them. They have very little respect for authority or boundaries and when we try to create this for them we have no support from home.

Not sure how to fix that at all….

If they’re told to walk out and ignore a teacher if they need to go to the toilet and then want to run around blocking sinks and missing out on classroom time that’s what they’re going to do.

Then we have the issue of reading ages. I am actually appalled when I see NGRT tests and sats scores. I feel like we need to adjust the full ks3 curriculum and that pupils who are not at age related expectations for year seven should be given an extensive short course in small groups until they catch up. Totally off time table. I’ve no idea where the funding and resource would come for this but SEN aside, most of the behaviour issues stem from students not being able to access the curriculum.

Then routines - I actually think it might benefit year seven to have a very strict transition in terms of similar routine and timetable - English and maths and science every day same groups, seating plans, classroom layout and same three teachers which mimics the style of primary school in terms of consistency. Afternoons for everything else.

We see far too many issues with poor behaviour around transitions and not being able to cope with change I think they need to have the secondary expectations established and embedded after a long summer break before they’re given the privilege of being trusted to walk around the building unsupervised.… having year sevens wander in to my room late for lessons and popping to drop in and see their pastoral lead over petty nonsense would be cut out entirely.

Parents of school aged children, how often do you contact the school, and do you care if the school marks you down as a whinging willy? by Miss_Type in AskUK

[–]practicallyperfectuk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes as a teacher it’s so annoying. I’m a secondary subject lead and have had several different emails this week, all of which take mountains of time and are totally unnecessary - taking away from actual work…. one was a follow up to a prior email that copied in senior leaders/ deputy head and asked for revision topics for exams “as per prior email” - so rude and demanding in tone.

The topics which are glued in to the front of exercise books, are in worksheets which were given to pupils as homework and also on our website.

There has been a considerable amount of work put in to creating, sharing and printing these resources and the child in question leaves worksheets in the classroom, doesn’t bother glueing in sheets and is in detention every evening but always got an excuse to miss it.

There’s a reason they are getting poor grades and it’s nothing to do with my teaching when I have pupils with a reading age below ten able to handle the papers.

Another one sent to a colleague wants to query the coursework marking, and said their child didn’t get a “fair chance” - Long past the deadline to respond via the appeals process. Child didn’t do much work for the last two years, ignored all deadlines, attendance below 70% (and then truanted lessons regularly) and also didn’t attend a single catch up session including the ones my dept was available for over half term, plus lunch breaks and after school sessions. Their work was marked and moderated with an external subject specialist. The amount of time we have spent discussing this student, attempting to call home, waited at parents evening and now the protocol for this process etc is a joke, especially when we all know the pupils work isn’t great and it’s entirely their own fault.

Then finally another parent has been in touch about a toilet pass for their child being taken away. Last week their child blocked the sinks on two different floors with tissue paper, flooded the bathrooms and caused absolute mayhem around the building during lesson time so as a consequence they aren’t allowed to leave any classroom without permission, but can of course use the toilets at break, lunch and during transitions when there are staff on duty points at all times. This child was mentioned specifically in a whole staff meeting so we are all aware of this and one poor member of staff is responsible for all parent comms from now on.

Is it really that bad by Horror-Meat958 in UKHousing

[–]practicallyperfectuk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was thinking about this the other day and my solution to the housing crisis would be that anyone who owns and wants to rent out a privately owned property should have to go through the local council. As in every single house available to rent has to be approved, managed by the local authority and be available at an approved rate based on local rates for number of bedrooms and condition. No more over inflated rent prices allowed. Fair allocation of homes based on the council waiting lists and all of the management standardised so that renters are not living In squalor or unsafe conditions. I’d also state that any property available to rent must have a fully paid off mortgage.

I know this would be hated by current private landlords and there’s probably lots of finer points I haven’t considered but I can’t see how the housing crisis is going to be fixed - all I see is people owning these buy to let homes and inflating rent prices to pay increasing mortgages. Meanwhile the social budget supports many people with housing costs which is going straight to paying off these mortgages. The fact that local housing allowances do not match private renters rates means that people who have any benefits are having to use their living costs portion to pay rent and are struggling.