minor things that make you fume

[gonetomorrow]

School parties are the worst. To be fair, I don't blame the children as they really should be given the experience to see such wonders of the world.

Instead, it's the clueless adults with them who seem totally incompetent at fulfilling their duties of shepherding them around and instilling dignity.

It's their (the adults) failings that cause people to generally hold such groups of children usually in disdain - they make me fume greatly.

I remember years ago being in the Catalyst museum with my oldest during the day before she was in school, and we stood patiently for the lift.

On charged a hoard of pupils clearly fulling a reproduction of 'Our Day Out' with their teachers talking about Okay Magazine or something similar.

One of their teachers barged forward, pressed the button and proclaimed to me, "Could you not walk instead? We have lots of children here".

Let's simply say she didn't expect my clam, softly-spoken but blunt response supported with my hand gesture explaining where she'd go head first.

I don't blame the kids. And they need to imbibe culture badly.
But visits should be organised better. One teacher going through the motions ahead of a group of teens who'd rather be hooked into social media is not the way.

 

[chrismpw]

I don't blame the kids. And they need to imbibe culture badly.
But visits should be organised better. One teacher going through the motions ahead of a group of teens who'd rather be hooked into social media is not the way.

As a teacher I've been there done it.
Two things .... You have no idea how excitable kids get to be out of the classroom. Plus, for cost grounds there are often very few teachers involved. The obligatory staff to student ratio is often made up using dinner ladies, support staff and office staff ... Which is cheaper than the school getting supply in.

I blame the Tories that education is detrimentally affected in this way.

 

[Toast]

As a teacher I've been there done it.
Two things .... You have no idea how excitable kids get to be out of the classroom. Plus, for cost grounds there are often very few teachers involved. The obligatory staff to student ratio is often made up using dinner ladies, support staff and office staff ... Which is cheaper than the school getting supply in.

I blame the Tories that education is detrimentally affected in this way.

My lad is going to Iceland on a school trip in a few weeks.
That seems to have enough staff volunteers like..

So did my eldests skiing trip to Austria funnily enough ?

 

[efcjames]

Hated chrome bumpers myself, all that shining and polishing, but if that's your thing. . . .

Is that GTA?

 

[Toast]

Is that GTA?

Olympiacos training ground mate.

 

[Armel]

As a teacher I've been there done it.
Two things .... You have no idea how excitable kids get to be out of the classroom. Plus, for cost grounds there are often very few teachers involved. The obligatory staff to student ratio is often made up using dinner ladies, support staff and office staff ... Which is cheaper than the school getting supply in.

I blame the Tories that education is detrimentally affected in this way.

Isn't there an easy solution? My teachers always prepared a questionnaire about the visit etc., so you had to be quiet; otherwise you weren't able to finish the thing.

 

[summerisle]

My lad is going to Iceland on a school trip in a few weeks.
That seems to have enough staff volunteers like..

So did my eldests skiing trip to Austria funnily enough ?

I believe the best thing in Iceland are the pasties.

 

[Toast]

I believe the best thing in Iceland are the pasties.

Greggs are boss, no doubt.
But that frozen Doner Meat takes some beating.

 

[bol-uk]

People saying "in my heart of hearts.." What is a heart of heart??

 

[chrismpw]

My lad is going to Iceland on a school trip in a few weeks.
That seems to have enough staff volunteers like..

So did my eldests skiing trip to Austria funnily enough ?

Won't quibble that it's a plus for the staff who go on trips like that in terms of a rewarding experience. But being on call 24 hours a day for those kids who are homesick, fighting or puking at 3am, or being the one who stays behind for the lad with the twisted ankle, or the one who sits in casualty all day ....

Damn demanding. All of those staff will come home shattered.

 

[chrismpw]

Isn't there an easy solution? My teachers always prepared a questionnaire about the visit etc., so you had to be quiet; otherwise you weren't able to finish the thing.

Yes. But I remember as a kid hating having to do those though, spending so much time trying to find the 1 nugget of information to answer a question it distracts you from everything else you could be taking in. For that reason I was always reluctant to use them on trips.

 

[Frang]

the utter size of alexander armstrongs ears

 

[kev]

Is that GTA?

GTF

 

[gonetomorrow]

As a teacher I've been there done it.
Two things .... You have no idea how excitable kids get to be out of the classroom. Plus, for cost grounds there are often very few teachers involved. The obligatory staff to student ratio is often made up using dinner ladies, support staff and office staff ... Which is cheaper than the school getting supply in.

I blame the Tories that education is detrimentally affected in this way.

I know. My dad was a head teacher and it led to his early death through stress. My sister was a teacher with ILEA in London and took early retirement before it did the same to her!

 

[chrismpw]

I know. My dad was a head teacher and it led to his early death through stress. My sister was a teacher with ILEA in London and took early retirement before it did the same to her!

Which is exactly the reason I'm now living off savings while I wait for the day I can grab my pension! lol