by teachercreature on October 15, 2010
After months of speculative sneering and wittering from the likes of Nick Robinson and Robert Peston, the age of austerity has, it seems, actually arrived
We teachers are bracing ourselves for 25 per cent cuts to already meagre school budgets and staring a return to the educational decay of the 1980s square in the face.
Every school is being hit by redundancies, class sizes are rising and they’ve even removed the boiled sweets and the bottled water from the tables at courses.
And, quite frankly, everyone from the women who mop the piss off the boy’s toilet floors, to the six-figure salaried saddlebacks at the PDC, are filling their trousers with fear. Even my mum asked if she could borrow a fiver the other day. [click to continue…]
by teachercreature on July 29, 2010
The Loony in Charge at school has, I am saddened to say, definitely lost it. Not in a ‘pants on the head, pencils up the nose’, comedy way. But in a Fu Man Chu, the world must pay, boggle-eyed sociopathic way. Needless to say, it’s been bad.
During my time at the Loony’s school, I have been shocked by much that she has said and done. But I have always put her negativity, empty rhetoric and strange decision making down to a genuine desire to do the best for the kids.
Sure there were the three bullying cases brought against her by other staff and of course there are the other two separate grievances which prompted further visits from the union this summer. Not to mention the racism claim.
But I always thought the Loony was more Ann Robinson than Hermann Goering. I was wrong. She tried to nail me to the wall. Because I got another job. [click to continue…]
