Thorpe-le-Saint

I doubt that many parents are CRB checked either...

...and now Gove is asking parents to break the strike action?!? Yeah, why don't we see how well that works/how 'up for it' non teachers are. What a ****ing incompetent ****

I would post something constructive but to be honest I just hope you booked the child minder early enough: they must be able to charge the earth! The only opinion that matters to me is that of the child in the classroom, not small minded morons, so I'm sure I'll sleep sound Wednesday night knowing they got a first class education that day and will do on Friday and for the rest of my career. Public sector attitude? If it wasn't for us, you would all be properly f.ucked! There is your f.ucking attitude!

So what's your REAL problem here? I doubt it's the loss in your child's education for a day...

It was bad enough last night at Hyde Park seeing The Killers so god knows how annoying kids would be at glasto

No, but if the dog was called "Honkey" I think people would be rightly ****ed off and you can bet your ******** that dunce would be up in arms!

Ah well, let the drinking commence early doors. HC could change the KO time to 9am for all I care, I will still be getting steamboated.

The missus got 5 tickets for indoor volleyball

This, what a brilliant take on a classic.

But it's not mother nature selecting species for extinction - it's us and our arrogance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13796479 "If the oceans die, we die." What is happening to the world's oceans is disgusting and needs reversing rapidly!

Are you sure about this VFTT? If this is the case, the guy brought on from EssexCC to explain this to us certainly didn't make himself very clear: he categorically stated that after three years TUPE expires for all staff and the school can decide what course of action they want to take. Surely if our T&Cs were protected ad infinitum there would not be half as much fuss?

As is what we were told in the academy 'consultation' process. All well and good, yet in 2014 the school can turn around to us and say "we've had enough of the TP&C, here is what WE want to pay you".

What a reposte! You took my argument, obviously studied it carefully and failed to respond. How novel.

As in the predictability that I ram dunce's pathetic argument into the ground as I base my arguments on fact and not on conjecture?

Oh Gove said it?!? It MUST be fact then. Any man who is as useless as him, as clueless as him, as moronic as him could make that claim...oh. The day Pob actually proposes something worthwhile and meaningful for our excellent state education system in this country will be the day hell freezes over. I love this argument and in fact, doing the research for my MA I looked at some English O-Level and A-Level papers from 1964-1968 (and am more than happy to scan them and upload the photocopies I took). The questions are a hell of a lot simpler than what pupils are asked to do today: The O-Level in particular focuses on one skill in a question where the GCSE asks for at least two every time: for example one of the O-Level questions is "A friend doesn't like poetry, you need to convince him otherwise in the form of a letter.". Dear o dear, if that's what Gove wants to go back to, you wont hear the pupils complaining! Plus being lectured at about exams from a man who can barely pick his knuckles up off the floor to carry his HNC certificate is a bit rich don't you think.

Oh **** me, not a typo!11!!!11!! ****ing grow up.

Ah O.K, a pointless war is better than a motivated, efficient public sector workforce. Fair enough.

Now, this is something oddly we would find common ground, but what has this got to do with anything? You need to blame the individual schools for this: if they had more headteachers willing to get rid of the dead-weight...

I'll say it again, tell me there is no cash around when we are funding a war in Afghanistan and a war in Lybia.

Then get out of your dead end career. Don't think I'm going to feel sorry for you. No, it won't be a £1300 increase, are you mental? Jesus Christ! Read some literature on the subject, my wage might go up in per annum terms, but with the rise in inflation etc it ends up becoming a pay cut: 1% reduction in wages, with a possible further 5-10% wage cut next year Perhaps the maths is too hard...

If you're related to so many teachers, maybe you should join them for a week and see if you can stick it?

I couldn't have put it better. Well said.

Once again you have missed the point. I'm going up to MPS3 but that pay has not risen - do you understand?

C'mon dunce, I'm only 25. I have a Ford Fiesta and can hardly afford a season ticket, let alone a caravan!