Thorpe-le-Saint

I work at least three of the six weeks in the summer, and one of the two weeks at both Easter and Xmas. Half Terms are devoted purely to work. However, I've been appointed a second in department for September so I envisage those three week in the summer will become four or five this year. My missus is head of KS3 English, so she'll be lucky to get three weeks holiday throughout the course of the year. But hey, no one cares about facts.

They're university educated and have a post graduate qualification! It's a pittance, but the pension makes it worth while. I feel were going round in circles.

I haven't argued anywhere that you don't have it tough. But surely you can appreciate that if the boot was on the other foot, you would be ****ed off as well.

Teachers in their first year. The problem we have is if you pay peanuts you get monkeys

Ah the holiday argument, when all else is lost and you've run out of things to say, just bring the holidays up: easy win every time eh?

Can we please stop using this nothing term "the real world"? Teaching has accepted without fuss change after change after change in the last five years and when one policy occurs that we don't agree with were suddenly not on the same planet. Between academies, pay freezes, curriculum changes by both parties, pension 'reform', Whitehall seems determined to tear apart an education system that has taken 100 years to perfect. It's sad and depressing times.

Point A - we can afford two fight to ****ing wars! Point B - you're a muppet if you don't read the full details of your contract. Point C - read again what I said! From September our pay does not rise in line with inflation. It's pointless trying to debate with some of the clowns on here, you all seem to think that you've been forced into the private sector. I would look long and hard at your career choice if you feel hard-done-by. I chose teaching, as I said before based on the pension and the desire to do something worthwhile.

Labour changed our pensions in 2007 (I think - either that or also in 05) but there was no fuss because they went through the proper union channels and negotiated. The Tories haven't even bothered, they've continued head long with their politically motivated dogma.

FACT CHECK: Point A - apparently. Point B - Our Pensions are outlined by the TPS (Teacher Pension scheme). Why don't you read it? Point C - Our wage rises have been suspended for at least two years.

I know you didn't TDD, but where is the solidarity? Your pension is protected and rightly so.

Grow a pair and just go?

My only comment on the matter is this: Raise the age to 66, fine, one more year won't kill me (hopefully) However, I WILL be walking out on the 30th because (and yes, it is selfish) I stand to lose a shed load of my pension in this 'reform'. I'm only 25, I will be teaching for another 41 years and I want a guarantee from the government that my endeavour on below average professional pay will be rewarded. People need to remember, the public sector is being punished for a crisis we didn't cause.

I almost wish Cortese and Leibherr hadn't bothered FFS. Boring.

Gove is undoubtedly Pob

I think the SS had that idea...only after they gassed them of course. tit.

Have you not heard that everything we have is 'gold plated'? That includes our income tax payments. I only pay roughly £50 a month income tax because I have a gold plated income tax code.

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA **** off you absolute loon.

I never stamped my feet dulldays, do keep up. I'm not a liberal voter, I'm a Labour/Green voter - anything that drives their support to ours can only benefit these parties.

I think that we possibly under estimated how strong The Lib Dems were in this coalition...maybe.

Englighten us...

This is why I chose dunce as the funniest poster on the forum: When he tries to engage in intelligent debate he falls at the first. What a numpty that curator from the RAF museum is: "In the context of the time and the film it’s not a racist name" - correct me if I'm wrong, but the dog was a black Lab? Therefore calling it that name is still racist REGARDLESS of the ****ing time it was said in. People knew it was racist then (i.e. it differentiated them from black people based on the colour of their skin) and where the word has it's origins (the slave trade) but were ignorant to the fact that it offended black people; it was part of their 'everyday' lexicon. Even if they were totally oblivious to the offence it would have caused approx seventy years ago, IT IS STILL RACIST you muppet. Can't you get hot under the collar about something that actually matters dunce? Like the number of hilarious U-turns your government is having to make in their policy for example?

Colchester away.

Annoying: Alpine/bungle Funny: dune (but only when he puts his 'intelligence' hat on)

Isn't this sort of thing technically illegal? (Informing people of speed traps)

Don't forget the Merchant Navy. My Great Gandad worked the Atlantic Convoys and to his dying die would lambast Chuchill for not taking the salute during the victory parades from them: he sat down as they marched past and looked away - what a disgusting insult that must have been! My Grandad informs me that he would have spat on Churchill if he had seen him in the street and tells me that he used to say "I fed that fat bastard for five years and he wouldn't even stand up!"