Some bad news

[NotAllThere]

But one of Labours new policies - should they get re-elected - is to turn Britain into a high tech economy.

How does sacking science teachers fit in with this?

Oh f*** we've spend too much on lesbian reach-out officers...

hth

[Moscow Mule]

Oh f*** we've spend too much on lesbian reach-out officers...

hth

Is that outreach officers who are lesbians, or officers who reach out to lesbians?

[SueEllen]

But one of Labours new policies - should they get re-elected - is to turn Britain into a high tech economy.

How does sacking science teachers fit in with this?

Science teachers teach proper verified facts and as no-one does scientific subjects at uni any more, it's cheaper to keep religious studies teachers who can also double up to teach the new science of creationism.

[PRC1964]

PRC #1 is going into secondary school in September. He and his closest friends list maths and science as the subjects they most enjoy. Sadly I fully expect them to have this enthusiasm beaten out of them within the first year.

To the OP, I hope your brother finds something soon. We need more science teachers. Could he try his hand at tutoring while looking?

[fullyautomatix]

Shock! Horror! Labour government was employing Science teachers??

Why?? For what purpose ?

It is common knowledge that all the mugs that are in school are not interested anymore in Maths/Science or any other "difficult" subjects.

It's photography, media, communications, pyschology, physical training, public health etc etc that is in demand. That is where the future lies.

[fullyautomatix]

Oh f*** we've spend too much on lesbian reach-out officers...

hth

I once implemented a project for county council and this project involved filling in a form by users. One of the question was Gender and the software provided standard options of, what else, male and female.

This council debated on this question for a week and had about 10 meetings and then paid us money to put in extra option of transexual. The justification being that not providing the option would mean that the council was discrimination against transexuals.

The project concluded and out of 9K registrations not a single user selected transexual.

We made some money on that stupid move and the council muppets spent about 10 meetings and had cookies and tea debating this issue.

[shaunbhoy]

It is common knowledge that all the mugs that are in school are not interested anymore in Maths/Science or any other "difficult" subjects.

If you want a future in "Science" then "Climate Science" is the way to go. Entry requirements are 3 grades at C and above in Media Studies, Art, and A N Other. After that it is a 2 year full time course in fiddling data and producing reams of pointless graphs and "hey presto!". You are in!

HTH

[PRC1964]

Shock! Horror! Labour government was employing Science teachers??

Why?? For what purpose ?

It is common knowledge that all the mugs that are in school are not interested anymore in Maths/Science or any other "difficult" subjects.

It's photography, media, communications, pyschology, physical training, public health etc etc that is in demand. That is where the future lies.

One of the schools we visited before deciding where he would go had just built a new art and photography centre and listed it's specialism as ICT. ICT in this context means allowing the kids to use laptops to create visual presentations of their curricular work

Oh, and they had recently sold off part of their playing fields to pay for the art and photography centre. Still, they did have an indoor "sports centre" where they could play badminton and do yoga safe from the nasty outside elements.

The science block was tiny and staffed by a competent but deeply disillusioned 50+ year old. If it had been in Wales I'd have asked if he was Zeity.

[MarillionFan]

Ahhhh! Devon you say.

Why doesn't he try his luck nearer the city, I for one love to laugh at people with stupid accents and six fingers. He may find work in a circus?

[shaunbhoy]

Ahhhh! Devon you say.

Why doesn't he try his luck nearer the city, I for one love to laugh at people with stupid accents and six fingers. He may find work in a circus?

Hardly surprising. Par for the course for someone that listens to Marillion!