Teachers today

[ratewhore]

I noticed you lived in Oxford so I take it you do get to mix with people who are not all White and/or Christian.

Well I was brought up in Inner London (granted in a borough that is 70%), have family that is a mixture of religions and was schooled and socialised with people who are a mixture of religions. BTW I still live in London.

You should go down the Cowley Road - you'd feel right at home...

[TheFaQQer]

my Mrs is a teacher, and is thinking of not going back from Maternity. she loves teaching, but the amount of bulls**t that goes with it doesnt make it worth it any more.

That's exactly what MrsF did - left teaching when pregnant with DD1 and now runs her own part of our business working from home.

She'll never go back, because it's so awful these days.

I think it's terrible.

Teachers are part of the bedrock of any society and they get treated like dirt.

Respect to your missus, old boy.

I agree totally - my sister, brother-in-law, brother and sister-in-law all teach and the amount of crap that they have to deal with every day is shocking.

"Education, education, education" the man said 10 years ago - and what happened to it?

[SueEllen]

So?

If you don't meet people who are different religionsthen you can't find out from them first hand whether they practise or not, and how observant they are.

[SueEllen]

You should go down the Cowley Road - you'd feel right at home...

Any Indian resturants there?

[Moscow Mule]

i ahted ehr being a teacher. the stories i heard of what the kids where like really got to me. there was one kid who constantly asked her for kisses and made sexual advances to her. the school didnt nothing. i wanted to murder this kid and slap him all over, but obviously that would only reflect on her!

she has caught kids filming up her skirt with mobiles, been racially abused and threatened, abused by parents for giving little sh*ts detentions etc. not the worth £22k a year she was on after 3yrs of teaching. nothing is worth the lack of support she got from her employers.

This is what the union is for.

FWIW, she probably shouldn't have started her teaching in an inner city school.

Parents are the worst - they never back up the school's decisions and expect the school to teach them everything they should have been taught at home.

[Ardesco]

My goodness SueEllen, didn't you know that Oxford has a large number of muslims living there?

Do a search on the forums about the Oxford Mosque!!!

Not to mention all the foreign students who live there...

[bogeyman]

"Education, education, education" the man said 10 years ago - and what happened to it?

Typical, glib NuLab sloganeering. It means absolutely nothing.

Just like "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" etc.

Anyone remember NuLabs 10 pledges?

I think they failed every one at the last count.

[bogeyman]

If you don't meet people who are different religionsthen you can't find out from them first hand whether they practise or not, and how observant they are.

Well, I don't actually.

Oxford is a different world really.

It's full of posh young (white) students holding teddy bears, serious looking (christian) profs and dons, smoking pipes and writing fantasy classics, and lots of nice middle-class (christian and white) folk from the 1950s.

[SueEllen]

My goodness SueEllen, didn't you know that Oxford has a large number of muslims living there?

Do a search on the forums about the Oxford Mosque!!!

Not to mention all the foreign students who live there...

All muslims act like media stereotypes.

And all foreign students are muslim.

[ratewhore]

And all foreign students are muslim.

Apart from all the Oriental ones. Which is cool because it means there's a great dimsum restaurant there...