Edited by Neil Anderson, Friday, 7 Jun 2013, 21:13
Too, many books, too many pieces of paper, too much to do.
Today was book-return day at work, a quaint tradition that puts enormous stress upon everyone who wasn't involved in the desicion that we should have such a thing; the mere ciphers who have to carry it out.
The basic premise is that the three year-groups who have been on exam-leave come back, bearing the books that they were issued with, when-ago, one Friday morning in June.
And if all the boxes are ticked a substancial amount of money will change hands between a student and the school.
Said books are meant to be checked for foxxing etc. but, as one teacher said to me, "it's like Zulu, they are all on you at once", so inspection doesn't happen. In truth this is a get together of year-groups and their heads, there is something good going on; important bonding is taking place, maybe?
Which if it was sold as such I would buy. Instead it is sold as an efficient process , I cry rubbish. No teacher no curriculum leader or me thinks it so. Only those not involved in any work...
This is a thing that I support, and I'm willing to go the extra mile to support it. And yet I hate it, what annoys me is that it is sold to me as if I was some type of swamp-cretin. A cretin that cannot understand this, therefore I can have no view-point; better, smarter, better people decide these smart things.
Than I get, for me. the rather-more-inportant, to my mind, SQA exams. There there's a lazy-fair [sic] attitude.
I can see what needs to change; I will never be able to make these changes.
position...
Too, many books, too many pieces of paper, too much to do.
Today was book-return day at work, a quaint tradition that puts enormous stress upon everyone who wasn't involved in the desicion that we should have such a thing; the mere ciphers who have to carry it out.
The basic premise is that the three year-groups who have been on exam-leave come back, bearing the books that they were issued with, when-ago, one Friday morning in June.
And if all the boxes are ticked a substancial amount of money will change hands between a student and the school.
Said books are meant to be checked for foxxing etc. but, as one teacher said to me, "it's like Zulu, they are all on you at once", so inspection doesn't happen. In truth this is a get together of year-groups and their heads, there is something good going on; important bonding is taking place, maybe?
Which if it was sold as such I would buy. Instead it is sold as an efficient process , I cry rubbish. No teacher no curriculum leader or me thinks it so. Only those not involved in any work...
This is a thing that I support, and I'm willing to go the extra mile to support it. And yet I hate it, what annoys me is that it is sold to me as if I was some type of swamp-cretin. A cretin that cannot understand this, therefore I can have no view-point; better, smarter, better people decide these smart things.
Than I get, for me. the rather-more-inportant, to my mind, SQA exams. There there's a lazy-fair [sic] attitude.
I can see what needs to change; I will never be able to make these changes.
So I sent my TMA.