The Ranting Room

Rick`s even stopped getting married .Canadian TV sucks man. I don`t even watch the news anymore. You guys are lucky over there.

That's priceless, Andy!  Fish is laughing his head off. 

Just caught Rick Wakeman on this Grumpy Old Men Show ! Smashing  Great Show  !!!  Favourite line : "I`ve had kettles before. " I don`t think I`m going to participate here though because I would go on and on and on and on untill the end of creation about how sick and tired I am of being sickand tired of everything that occurs in this universe..

A coupla more rants.......Mel Gibson is Australian?........he was born in New York. David snooty Cameron is in touch with the common people??...English accents in American movies....they always sound like they've got a silver spoon shoved up thier @rse. Thatcher is still alive........BBc news....storms are always worse in the south of England than anywhere else in the UK....building houses on flood plains?? The head of progrock records coming on this site preaching about piracy, when his company illegally sells bootlegs.

Edited by the_id - February 02 2008 at 20:04

Blacksword wrote:   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!!

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.

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

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.

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!

Peter, I wish I was a student at your school.