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    #51
    Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
    An even better one would be moving abroad.
    I moved abroad. Best thing I ever did.
    Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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      #52
      Originally posted by threaded View Post
      I moved abroad. Best thing I ever did.
      I would have done so years ago, but wife won't go.

      I don't think I can stand this awful country any more though, so I may have to go without her - with the stupidly-low cost of flying these days we could still get together at the weekends - which is about the only time we see each other anyway.

      You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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        #53
        Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
        Your mate made a good decision. An even better one would be moving abroad.
        He did.

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          #54
          Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
          Why not?
          Easier life?

          Being able to deal with absolute **** bags of kids from inner cities doesn't make you a good teacher, it just makes you good at dealing with **** bags.
          ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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            #55
            Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
            Easier life?

            Being able to deal with absolute **** bags of kids from inner cities doesn't make you a good teacher, it just makes you good at dealing with **** bags.
            If you want an easy life, you don't become a teacher.

            Your original suggestion implied not starting to teach in an inner city school. So at what stage should teachers move there?
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              #56
              Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
              If you want an easy life, you don't become a teacher.
              Granted, but there are degrees of easiness aren't there. My missus started her teaching in a not too rough mixed comp. I think it was a good grounding, and she coped well - even when a particularly nasty little tulip started targeting her outside of school.

              She now teaches in an all girls convent school, where she's bored by the lack of rebellion in the kids.

              Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
              Your original suggestion implied not starting to teach in an inner city school. So at what stage should teachers move there?
              That's not what I meant.

              I meant don't ever teach there if you don't want to have to deal with the feral scumbags that inhabit most of them.
              ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                #57
                Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
                If you want an easy life, you don't become a teacher.

                Your original suggestion implied not starting to teach in an inner city school. So at what stage should teachers move there?
                Many, as their first proper job, as no one older is quite that niave...
                Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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                  #58
                  Originally posted by threaded View Post
                  Many, as their first proper job, as no one older is quite that niave...
                  My cousin is just doing his first job in a very rough school, he's finding some amusement in it all at the moment but 6 months in he's applying for private schools. He went for the extra year as a student lazy option, I'll give him 3 years teaching tops !

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                    #59
                    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
                    She now teaches in an all girls convent school, where she's bored by the lack of rebellion in the kids.
                    Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - back in 5!


                    <Pedant>Aren't all convents only for girls?</Pedant>
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                      #60
                      Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
                      Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - back in 5!


                      <Pedant>Aren't all convents only for girls?</Pedant>
                      Weirdo.

                      Good point, although I've just remembered they let boys into the 6th form (or year 13 or whatever it's called now).
                      ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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