#teachers problems

[rebelandrichgirl]

I have to write a mail to the parents of one of my students for the first time...

How do you say "You son is a fucking asshole!" in polite...?

[awed-frog]

people: I don't know why teachers are always going on about better working conditions....teaching is basically a holiday already..watching TV and doing crafts all day...plus my child is a literal ANGEL from God, getting to spend time with him is a TREAT...his teacher should pay ME for the privilege lolllool......seriously though....teachers are paid too much if you ask me.....

people after 48h of quarantine: HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SPEND ALL THIS TIME WITH MY KIDS THIS IS A PRISON OF MANY HORRORS WHY CAN'T SCHOOLS STAY OPEN WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME

[awed-frog]

Teachers should be paid a lot more.

[awed-frog]

We have a really bad education system especially for languages. I had no language classes until secondary school (age 11) and then it was one class a week Spanish and one class a week French. Most schools you don't need to choose a language so after 2/3 years many people stop entirely learning languages. It's ridiculous. That said we should stop being so ignorant. The education system should maybe introduce languages that are some use to most people who don't travel much, maybe such as Polish and maybe Arabic and Welsh and Irish and Scots Gaelic etc. Most people have the idea of 'I live in England so I only need English' when actually there are so many languages in this country. So our education system is definitely a problem but we should totally take some responsibility and just learn and not be assholes!

I probably told this story before because I’m as old as the cuckoo bird at this point, but when I was teaching MFL in the UK I had to sit in for an exam so I could see how it was done and this was at GSCE level, so the student had to talk for 8 minutes about his family and this is what happened:

The teacher had given the student a list of questions the week beofre.

The student had answered them in English.

The teacher had translated them into [language] by using a list of appropriate B1 words plus one ‘luxury’ expression for credibility and extra points.

Then she’d given the thing back to the student.

Who’d memorized it.

On the day of the exam, the teacher absent-mindedly skipped a question.

The student, who wasn’t listening and/or couldn’t understand one single goblin word of it, answered the missing question.

“So what is your dream holiday?”

“My sister plays tennis every Friday and also has a dog. I like the dog.”

After a few seconds, the teacher realized what had happened.

She smiled at me like Fridays am I right, stopped the exam, rewinded the tape that had to be sent to the grading board, and started the exam again from the top.

The student got an A*.

I’d say toss the entire system and start from scratch tbh.

[awed-frog]

Completely unrelated to anything, but this -

- just whipped me back to high school so violently I had to sit down.

[awed-frog]

Potentially unpopular opinion, but I trust people who tell you not to read the thing much, much less than people who tell you you should totally read the thing. Sure, sometimes the thing is boring and stupid and doesn’t live up to its reputation, but reading it and forming your own opinion of it is always better than accepting someone else’s rant at face value.

[awed-frog]

Anyway, the ‘further education’ training offer for teachers funded by the Italian government now includes ‘Exorcism 101′, so that’s how you know things are going well.

[awed-frog]

Anyway, talking about ‘Europe’s profound Christian values’: today one of my friends accompanied a class of 13-year-old kids to some exibition, and as they were going up the museum’s staircase, they noticed a huge and grotesquely detailed crucifix hanging on the wall. Half the kids stopped, the other half crashed into them, and all of a sudden there was a chorus of “Miss is he dead” and “Miss is that blood” and “Miss are those nails? Was he nailed to the wood?!?” and “Miss why would someone do that” and guess what, the only girl who actually knew something about Jesus’ life was the one with Muslim parents.