http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=teachers The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 13:07:11 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60187#post-174722 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:21:46 +0000 monkeyrepublic 174722@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Following a specially convened meeting, Cabinet Ministers have issued a 'witty comeback' as a response to nursing and teaching unions who branded planned reforms 'stupid'.</p> <p>Intended to demoralise the unions and sew doubt and fear in their minds, the comeback has been hailed as a victory for a Government with its back against the wall and redemption for Ministers whose policies appeared, from every conceivable angle, ill thought out, poorly informed, ignorant, overly aggressive, cocksure, clumsy and unworkable.</p> <p>Jeremy Hunt said: "This'll show them. It really is biting and cruel, and really puts the case for reform beyond dispute." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48847#post-140941 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:56:38 +0000 dvo4fun 140941@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yep<br /> An extended field-trip at his own expense. That's commitment </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48847#post-140938 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:30:14 +0000 DustyBinLaden 140938@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I was feeling left out. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48847#post-140937 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:29:33 +0000 DustyBinLaden 140937@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Chief Inspector of Schools in England and Wales, Sir Michael Wilshaw, has said that maths teacher Jeremy Forrest is exactly the type of best-in-class teacher he was referring to when he made his recent controversial comments on rewarding hard work and going the extra mile.</p> <p>'He’s hard working and most definitely not out of the gate at 3pm. In fact, he was on a ferry at 7am, and in my book that shows commitment,' said Wilshaw.</p> <p>Teacher Maggie Jones said: ‘I’ve just spent the weekend preparing an inspirational lesson plan and marking coursework for my GCSE students, but Forrest has set the bar too high. I feel inadequate and useless. I’ve decided to cancel my holiday to Rhyl because on my performance related pay it’s come down to a choice of a wet week in Wales or a meal on the table.’ </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28413#post-79426 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:50:10 +0000 Oxbridge 79426@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Probably the word 'cock'. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28413#post-79322 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:59:46 +0000 Midnight Dreary 79322@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Arrgh, I don't get it. Give us a clue, dvo - what made you laugh? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28413#post-79316 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:47:21 +0000 Dick Everyman 79316@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Never seen Waterloo Rd but you paint a magical picture of school life, wish I was back - 5* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28413#post-79312 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:00:22 +0000 dvo4fun 79312@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like all paragraphs. Stars. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28413#post-79302 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:23:38 +0000 Oxbridge 79302@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>As 11-year-old James Parker prepares to go up his secondary school, Chase Bridge in the London Borough of Islington, his parents feared that as a fan of the BBC serial Waterloo Road, he may have a misleading view of life in big school. Fortunately his older brother Clive has been able to assure James that the reality is very different.</p> <p>'Waterloo Road is fun but some of the plotlines are a bit far-fetched,’ commented Clive. ‘I mean take the time when the headmasters’ daughter had a fling with the same boy as another girl in Year 12 and they both got pregnant, then had a catfight in class, then one lost the baby and they made up again. Things like that don’t happen at Chase Bridge every day. Hardly once a term, really.’</p> <p>One thing that may surprise young James, his brother added, is the number of affairs pupils have with teachers. To the best of his knowledge, this has never happened during his school career, for very good reasons.</p> <p>‘Miss Harris is the fittest teacher at Chase Bridge but she’s 24, that’s well old, and she smells of garlic,’ Clive said. ‘I know 15-year-olds are meant to be support systems for hormones, but I wouldn’t. Mind you I did see Mr Cartwright’s cock in the changing rooms once and it was MASSIVE. And hairy. Eeeww.’</p> <p>In another plotline, a teacher smuggled drugs into Waterloo Road so that a pupil from a poverty-stricken family could sell them. 'Absolute rubbish,' said Clive. 'Teachers don't smuggle in drugs for that, they do it so they can have a quick spliff in the staff room to cope with being unqualified social workers to teenage psychopaths. Duh.'</p> <p>Clive also criticised the storyline in which a Polish janitor at Waterloo Road was abused by Year 10 children who claimed their fathers had lost their jobs to East Europeans and sprayed ‘Immigrants Go Home’ on the walls. ‘Yeah, very likely,’ he said. ‘Year 10s in Islington knowing their fathers. Or how to spell ‘immigrants’.’ </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=635#post-1722 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:47:07 +0000 exigo 1722@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>More soon </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=116#post-348 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:09:27 +0000 Mrblacker 348@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Classroom violence could get worse across the country because of allegations about Gordon Brown's behaviour, according to the National Union of Teachers.</p> <p>They're warning that pupils will see the defence put up by the Prime Minister's Cabinet colleagues over the way he threatens and cajoles them, as a tacit approval of his attitude to others.</p> <p>"We're extremely worried that classroom teachers and assistants will see bullying behaviour increase in the next few months, because no-one who works with the Prime Minister has condemned his behaviour in class, sorry Cabinet." The union's Jackie Twigg said.</p> <p>"As it is, we have a hard enough time controlling unruly pupils and this will only make things worse. Although not for me, because as I work for the union I've managed to leave the bastards behind."</p> <p>The Schools Secretary Ed Balls has dismissed the claim, but refused to give any grounds for the rejection until a bigger boy's told him what to say. </p>