It's the end of a day teaching and I feel as if all the joy has been sucked out of me. Only teaching does that, it leaves me inert and jaded. So much for the cant about working with people who will make you question, instead like Orwell said it feels as if you are pouring your immortal soul down the drain pint by pint.
It is not as if the ideas that are taught aren't stimulating but it is the debillitating drip by drip of maintaining discipline that acts like an exquisite chinese torture.
Add to that the relentless initiatives, badly thought through, not open to questioning and delivered by those with little within them apart from a relentless ambition.
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cj592
Pro - 2007-09-12 @ 21:15:03
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Little_Monkey
Pro - 2007-09-12 @ 21:23:06
Me too!
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Personally, I think that there is a fantastic and ruthless satire out there to be written about education and not one that just aims itself at New Labour and its agenda but also at the Right Wing hatchet men of OFSTED while reserving equal vitriol for the liberal/left assumptions that have so insidiously become unqestionable.
I just wish I had the talent to write it. It wouldn't sugar the pill with too much humour but would genuinely draw blood.
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So it's not just me and my immediate colleagues then?
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pollygarter
- 2007-09-12 @ 21:42:23
Sounds tough and still only first half of September!
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Confuddled
Pro - 2007-09-12 @ 21:47:32
Not being a teacher, I can only imagine how draining it is to give so many performances each day whilst trying to control the audience at the same time.
Take care & big hugs,
M
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- 2007-09-12 @ 22:03:44
yes I do feel for you.......and feel guilty that I have not the best of pupils for a daughter......
all the best with it......(I never made it through my PGCE course....one term...and that was enough 
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Well lone mum perhaps you got out at just the right time. I always said that I would only be doing it for a year before I found something more exciting to do. Amazing how naive I was back in 1984.
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- 2007-09-13 @ 21:23:00
sometime I wished I'd persevered and finished the course and got a job teaching and here I'd be.....earning money.....etc etc......
....ah well!!!
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At least if its a fee paying school the parents care enough to get their moneys worth and more likely to discipline their children. Lack of discipline must be a nightmare davidj
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menhir
- 2007-09-13 @ 18:21:35
Hm - where to now? The imposition of what is good for the majority as dreamed up by the few, sounds awfully familiar.
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rippled_water
- 2007-09-13 @ 23:12:55
*sprinkles some joy*
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suzeemoon
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- 2007-09-21 @ 22:15:25
Young enough to change direction, timsuzi...
I know you have children, but they have two parents.
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Oh man. I know how that feels!
{hugs}