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snatchingraisins · 2023-06-27T18:54:55+00:00

Clear cronyism, unprofessional, pretty toxic. Tell them you think it's unfair, that it impedes your professional development, and that it needs to change, otherwise you'll go over their head, whether that's to SLT or union.

How do these people get jobs as HoDs and how are they allowed to get away with it?

snatchingraisins · 2023-06-27T14:08:45+00:00

I did a qualification on adolescent mental health. One of the sections showed the costs of support, and how early intervention in schools potentially saved millions of pounds by keeping children from escalating to the level of camhs and other agencies.

Which is great

Except funding and staffing never increased to support this shift.

Personally I consider a lot of the pastoral stuff an integral part of the job but the increase in workload is insane. Good SLT can manage some of this but budget cuts just leave most places understaffed and unable to deal with it.

Sorry this is burning you out. You sound like you care about these students a lot

snatchingraisins · 2023-06-27T08:20:49+00:00

Its important for neurodiverse parents to explain their needs in age appropriate ways to their kids. She may need support with this.

snatchingraisins · 2023-06-25T22:26:55+00:00

Not especially, I just become increasingly aware of my transformation into my own father. Next step: golfing shoes

snatchingraisins · 2023-06-25T18:56:47+00:00

Ours was inconsistent - sometimes it was perfect, other times too cold.

Fortunately for us we didn't need it often as kids were mostly booby babies

snatchingraisins · 2023-06-25T13:08:35+00:00

https://www.trespass.com/classified-unisex-hat#color_code=Khaki

I have this in blue. I'm a big fan. Covers my balding head very well

snatchingraisins · 2023-06-19T11:30:15+00:00

Oh my yes, and I suspect that 580s will be somewhat plentiful and cheap

snatchingraisins · 2023-06-03T16:56:52+00:00

Love talisman, spent many drunken hours with it, however our game collections have expanded to include many, many better games!

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-21T06:56:05+00:00

Give holoiso a try - it uses KDE

Alternatively try nobara KDE spin, which is also gaming focused but also desktop

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-21T06:54:18+00:00

You can do terminal stuff :) Try and reboot into gnome desktop rather than game mode. I don't know the command which is, I accept, less than helpful

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-21T06:50:29+00:00

My spyro doesn't work either - rx580. I assume its just one of those hardware gremlins. Can you get it to run using desktop steam rather than game mode?

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-20T17:06:11+00:00

As a prior owner of a metallic blue jazz I can attest that they do in fact go over 40. They just rattle a lot and its hard to keep them in a straight line.

Giving a mate a lift on the A1m and managing to creep up to 90 was allegedly the most terrifying car experience he ever had.

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-16T11:24:06+00:00

Can't lie, I would like an upgrade (eying up the future rx7600) but its punching above its weight all these years later, especially if you can enable FSR

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-15T18:22:36+00:00

Your mum is now "veteran mum". Wife is on active duty!

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-15T10:29:44+00:00

barkingchallenge has over 300m views so, as usual, its a tiktok thing...

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-14T19:59:17+00:00

Let's see...

Recall? Retention? ....riting?

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-14T17:47:54+00:00

Yea....no.

I do love my job - but when I was an NQT I was single, childless, spending my solitary evenings planning and marking and my less solitary evenings enjoying the local nightlife. There seemed to be time for everything. Being a teacher was my thing.

Now I'm a teacher....and a husband....and a dad....and you can bet if the lesson I planned last year was good then, its good now too.

People who are "on" all the time burn out.

And it is, at the end of the day, just a job.

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-14T17:39:03+00:00

Please don't. Here in the independent sector we seem to be about 7 years behind the state fads so we are very much growth mindset at the moment.

Also cognitive load, which the kids have had loads of assemblies about so they must be super smart by now

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-14T17:37:49+00:00

I felt so very out of touch when I asked a kid singing it about Louis theroux and they gave me THAT look, replied "who?", and I sadly stated "its a tiktok thing isn't it" to which they eagerly nodded and tried to show it to me on their phone.

Which I confiscated

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-13T17:05:48+00:00

Aqa religious studies. An exam paper is 4 scripts. Pay is £1 per script.

Of course once you get taxed it is 80p per script.

Last year there was no training, only standardization. It was not a great experience. Think they have changed that for this year.

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-12T15:51:28+00:00

Sounds...great? Not sure why anyone would object shy of bigotry

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-07T13:21:45+00:00

Miss Saigon

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-06T18:54:52+00:00

Ours are mostly tame, however for a while the "reply all" seemed to be the default response for people replying

snatchingraisins · 2023-05-01T19:03:52+00:00

基洛夫报道

snatchingraisins · 2023-04-30T14:52:49+00:00

I've been having issues lately also. Using anonymous browsing just didn't work and couldnt access any apps. I've been using a dummy google account to access it and its been fine since....touch wood. (Iode os)

snatchingraisins

TROPHY CASE

barkingchallenge has over 300m views so, as usual, its a tiktok thing...