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Blacksword 
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 Posted: January 30 2008 at 07:49 |
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Dean
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Posted: January 30 2008 at 07:58 |
I've installed the ieSpell  ... and then tort it all teh bad spellings, which saves a lot of time when running teh spewl chequer... 
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Blacksword
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Posted: January 30 2008 at 08:12 |
^ Looks like it works a treat! 
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Man Erg
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Posted: January 30 2008 at 09:31 |
 HughesJB4 wrote:
How about those people that type too fast and type 'taht' instead of that, and 'teh' instead of the, and do not bother to go back and check their spelling or edit their post? |
N.I'm fine with typso 
I blm mbl phnes
Edited by Man Erg - January 30 2008 at 09:35
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 30 2008 at 10:35 |
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 30 2008 at 10:37 |
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 30 2008 at 10:39 |
Oh yes, you are indeed correct. My mammory is lapsing. 
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Leningrad
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Location: Canada
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Posted: January 31 2008 at 00:18 |
Why is it that every school in the  district except for mine decided to close?
The one two minutes down the ing road closed, so why can't mine? It's bad enough that I live 40 minutes away from the ing thing, now I have to walk too. So I'm trudging off to Auschwitz in ankle-high slush wearing my brand new running shoes, water seeping into every inch of skin below my knees. Then Cletus McGregor and his inbred children decide to drive three inches away from the ing curb and splash a vile mixture of leaves, the soggy corpses of assorted rodentia and what may have once been water all up my backside. Ludicrously attired for the remaining 7 hours, I proceed through my day equally as uneducated as I had been before I had come to school, considering that about half of my teachers were still stuck somewhere in the ing Yukon. So, as I sat in the corner listening to Van der Graaf Generator, lamenting my regrettable fate, I realized that my homework had been melted into an unrecognizable mess, thus cementing the day as an abomination of an afternoon and a blight upon all that is good in this world. Unsatisfied with my life, I came home and wept silently.
Stop trying to be a ing anarchist, school. CONFORM.
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Blacksword
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Joined: June 22 2004
Location: England
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Points: 16130
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Posted: January 31 2008 at 05:12 |
Chameleon wrote:
Why is it that every school in the district except for mine decided to close?
The one two minutes down the ing road closed, so why can't mine? It's bad enough that I live 40 minutes away from the ing thing, now I have to walk too. So I'm trudging off to Auschwitz in ankle-high slush wearing my brand new running shoes, water seeping into every inch of skin below my knees. Then Cletus McGregor and his inbred children decide to drive three inches away from the ing curb and splash a vile mixture of leaves, the soggy corpses of assorted rodentia and what may have once been water all up my backside. Ludicrously attired for the remaining 7 hours, I proceed through my day equally as uneducated as I had been before I had come to school, considering that about half of my teachers were still stuck somewhere in the ing Yukon. So, as I sat in the corner listening to Van der Graaf Generator, lamenting my regrettable fate, I realized that my homework had been melted into an unrecognizable mess, thus cementing the day as an abomination of an afternoon and a blight upon all that is good in this world. Unsatisfied with my life, I came home and wept silently.
Stop trying to be a ing anarchist, school. CONFORM.
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School days are the best days of you life..
Just you wait until you get out into the 'real world' sitting in grid locked rush hour traffic for hours every day, on your way to some dog awful job, answering to some sh!thead who earns five times what you do, but always seems to be out playing golf somewhere. Thats when you'll truly realise just how bad the world really is, and what an utter turd most people actually are.. ..
However, I do commend you on a fine rant, sir. I hope tomorrow is better for you.. 
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Peter
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Posted: January 31 2008 at 08:54 |
^  Yes -- a capital rant! 
Just to rub it in, Chameleon, before I walk to work: my kids had a day off due to the storm yesterday, as did I (the college closed). 
Now I'm tired though -- I stayed up too late apologizing. 
But I don't have the energy to rant about it.
Edited by Peter - January 31 2008 at 08:55
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 31 2008 at 08:55 |
Peter, I wish I was a student at your school.
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Jared
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Location: Hereford, UK
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Posted: January 31 2008 at 10:39 |
Geck0 wrote:
Peter, I wish I was a student at your school.
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I bet he's relieved you're not a pupil....
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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1800iareyay
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Joined: November 18 2006
Location: United States
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Points: 2492
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Posted: January 31 2008 at 21:44 |
Why are TAs the least helpful people on the f**king planet? I'm sitting in a computer lab, trying to make sense of a program that hasn't been explained to us at all (and the class only started two weeks ago so it's not like we've got -ing experience), and the TA just stands there. We finally start asking her for help, and she talks in such circles I begin to think she's the plot of the next Richard Kelly film. For 's sake, your title is ASSISTANT! -ing assist me! It's like watching a -ing medic read Harry Potter while some poor is dying on a table. S**t, I need a job AND I hate to work. I just found my dream college job!
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Padraic
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Posted: January 31 2008 at 23:24 |
1800iareyay wrote:
Why are TAs the least helpful people on the f**king planet? |
Mostly because they're almost obligated to take that job to get their graduate stipend, not because they want to be. They're not helpful because they plain don't give a sh*t about you. Not all of them are this way, though - even as an upperclassman in college I tutored kids in calculus and always found it very rewarding when I could help someone learn. Another problem with TAs in the sciences is, unfortunately, a language/communication issue.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Location: Ukraine
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Posted: February 01 2008 at 02:43 |
Chameleon wrote:
Why is it that every school in the district except for mine decided to close?
The one two minutes down the ing road closed, so why can't mine? It's bad enough that I live 40 minutes away from the ing thing, now I have to walk too. So I'm trudging off to Auschwitz in ankle-high slush wearing my brand new running shoes, water seeping into every inch of skin below my knees. Then Cletus McGregor and his inbred children decide to drive three inches away from the ing curb and splash a vile mixture of leaves, the soggy corpses of assorted rodentia and what may have once been water all up my backside. Ludicrously attired for the remaining 7 hours, I proceed through my day equally as uneducated as I had been before I had come to school, considering that about half of my teachers were still stuck somewhere in the ing Yukon. So, as I sat in the corner listening to Van der Graaf Generator, lamenting my regrettable fate, I realized that my homework had been melted into an unrecognizable mess, thus cementing the day as an abomination of an afternoon and a blight upon all that is good in this world. Unsatisfied with my life, I came home and wept silently.
Stop trying to be a ing anarchist, school. CONFORM.
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Your pain reminds me of the my first two years of high school. I had no friends at all in my first year. Some of my current friends that have slight memories of me in 2002 in the school yard inform me I apparently used to walk around the school yard alone talking to myself. Walking around by myself i definitely remember, talking to myself, not so much . Second year of school, my depression had gotten even worse, and i generally cried almost everyday at least once afterschool. i also succumbed to the pressure of cigarette smoking for a while, but that didn't last long, when i decided it was not worth hanging around people with IQs below 80 just to be 'cool'.
The rant can go on and on, but I wont make this rant much more mindless. I'll leave it with a final one : I'm now repeating final year of school 
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: February 01 2008 at 07:05 |
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1800iareyay, I do teaching assistant work voluntarily, without pay, so we're not all like that!
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Blacksword
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Joined: June 22 2004
Location: England
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Posted: February 01 2008 at 07:54 |
A girl I know works as a teaching assistant in a primary school. There have been times where she has to take whole classes on her own. She has been expected to supervise art classes, alone, and put together a recorder group and organise a school play. She earns just above minimum wage.
The school is quite rough too. She told me that in one class, there were only 4 out of about 28 pupils who were NOT on the 'at risk' register.. 
Edited by Blacksword - February 01 2008 at 07:55
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Jared
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Joined: May 06 2005
Location: Hereford, UK
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Posted: February 01 2008 at 08:49 |
Blacksword wrote:
The school is quite rough too. She told me that in one class, there were only 4 out of about 28 pupils who were NOT on the 'at risk' register.. |
my sister teaches in a primary school on the edge of a large area of council estates, and she often says the same things...like out of a class of 30 kids, only 2 of them were living with both their natural parents... 
she says that the problem is greatly exacerbated by the fact that very few teachers actually want to teach in her school, because it is often more like crowd control that teaching...this means that staff room morale is often low, recruitment is difficult, most of the teachers are in their early 20's, just out of college, and its their first job. break times are spent scouring the TES for better jobs.
the consequence is that the kids with the greatest need for some form of stability at school ('cos they often haven't any at home) end up with a revolving door of teachers (sometimes 3 or 4 different ones in a school year), and a high percentage of classes taken by supply teachers...with the resulting poor ofsted reports.
when I asked my sister what were the main reasons for this problem, she says that most young teachers went to nice, quiet little primary schools themselves, full of well behaved children in uniforms, and that it comes as a serious culture shock to them, when they see that not all primary schools were like their own...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Blacksword
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Joined: June 22 2004
Location: England
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Posted: February 01 2008 at 11:07 |
fandango wrote:
Blacksword wrote:
The school is quite rough too. She told me that in one class, there were only 4 out of about 28 pupils who were NOT on the 'at risk' register.. |
my sister teaches in a primary school on the edge of a large area of council estates, and she often says the same things...like out of a class of 30 kids, only 2 of them were living with both their natural parents...
she says that the problem is greatly exacerbated by the fact that very few teachers actually want to teach in her school, because it is often more like crowd control that teaching...this means that staff room morale is often low, recruitment is difficult, most of the teachers are in their early 20's, just out of college, and its their first job. break times are spent scouring the TES for better jobs.
the consequence is that the kids with the greatest need for some form of stability at school ('cos they often haven't any at home) end up with a revolving door of teachers (sometimes 3 or 4 different ones in a school year), and a high percentage of classes taken by supply teachers...with the resulting poor ofsted reports.
when I asked my sister what were the main reasons for this problem, she says that most young teachers went to nice, quiet little primary schools themselves, full of well behaved children in uniforms, and that it comes as a serious culture shock to them, when they see that not all primary schools were like their own... |
I can imagine. It's a real tragedy. These kids wont always be kids. One day they'll be big strapping adults, with messed up heads and axes to grind! We need teachers with experience of 'challenging' kids to be sent to these schools. These young teachers, through no fault of their own can not cope. They shouldn't have to!!
Both myself and the girl I refer to went to the primary school I mentioned, when we were kids. It had a bad reputation then, but to be honest it was a picnic compared to what it is now. I'm sure it's not a case of rose tinted glasses either. We had our fair share of hard nuts and trouble makers like any school at the time, but I'm certain we never had a situation where some PARENTS were banned from school premises because of violent behaviour.
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Jared
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Posted: February 01 2008 at 11:23 |
Blacksword wrote:
but I'm certain we never had a situation where some PARENTS were banned from school premises because of violent behaviour. |
I think this is where the problem stems from... Adie (my sister) says one of the hardest jobs she finds is trying to persuade mothers that their children's behaviour is in fact unreasonable... that thumping other children, constantly turning up late, continually disrupting the class with attention seeking antics, so that other kids can't learn and calling their teacher a 'cow' or a 'bitch' is in fact unsociable...
but the problem is that many who are now parents from the surrounding council estates, hardly went to school after 13 themselves, leaving with no qualifications, so they have a habit of seeing school attendance as optional, rather than compulsory for their own kids...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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