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Coronavirus Part 4

Brett-Butler
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Maybe, just maybe Chris, those particular teachers are suffering from depression. Have you considered that, or is it only your own personal mental health that you care about ?

 

Here's some friendly advice: Stop reading the Sun.

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She brought this school up over 15 years from almost failing to being outstanding yet this is her reward. You couldn't make it up. :rolleyes: Have emailed the Governors as have a lot of others to express my disgust at their decision.

You’ve still ignored the fact that she slagged off her staff to the press rather than addressing the issue herself. In other words, she didn’t do her job. Who would want to work for a boss like that?

Then you are a good teacher and full marks for all that you've done and are doing. That doesn't mean all teachers are as good as you though.

 

It doesn’t make me a ‘good teacher’ because I’m only doing what the other teachers are doing. Teachers are constantly going the extra mile, working extra hours they’re not paid for and spending all their free time thinking about work, but people like you find it so easy to slag us all off. You’re so quick to defend yourself for sitting around doing nothing for forty years but you can’t even see it from someone else’s point of view. Some of these ‘lazy’ teachers will have families of their own to home school and vulnerable relatives to look after. And some days they might need some time out.

 

If they’re boasting about not doing much work (which actually, they may not have much to do because it’s very well known that lots of kids are not engaging with work and their parents don’t care either) the she is either not directing them properly or not respected enough by her staff for them to follow instructions. Either way, the problem lies with her. I’ve looked into her, she resigned at Christmas anyway and so was only working her notice. Blaming the staff for the reason she’s leaving. I reckon she’s an absolute nightmare to work for and given she won’t be around to pick up the pieces when schools return, maybe morale is low amongst her staff.

 

This pandemic has proven that schools and teachers are needed more than ever. No one has taken to online learning and thought ‘oh this would be a great replacement’. Many people out there have realised now that not just anyone can be a teacher. But unfortunately we’re still undervalued because most just see us as free childcare and for the first time in 100 years we’ve been unable to provide that full time. Unfortunately when all this is over I don’t see that changing.

 

Also lots of school support staff have been working constantly over this period too and they deserve recognition too.

From DS.

 

Bournemouth council leader said the reason the beaches had 250,000 visitors yesterday was because the Prime Minister "threw his hands up six weeks ago" and did not sack Dominic Cummings.

 

Bournemouth Council declared a major incident on Thursday as thousands of sun-seekers flocked to the coast and called on national intervention to help clear the crowds.

 

Prime Minister's instruction the previous day for seaside authorities was to "show some guts" and manage the beach-goers independently.

 

Council leader Vikki Slade, who had publicly condemned the behaviour, told LBC that Boris Johnson "decided to make it a free for all six weeks ago, threw his hands up and said not my problem mate, then he let [Dominic Cummings] do what he liked and the British public have said fine."

 

Ms Slade referred to the revelation that the PM's senior aide Dominic Cummings travelled from London to County Durham during the lockdown in a move which caused much controversy.

Ms Slade said it was at that point she noticed a change in mentality, "We noticed a significant difference in the behaviour of people after that incident where people have gone social distancing in their head doesn't apply anymore."

 

She told Eddie that Bournemouth has no problem managing numbers but managing the "absolutely unacceptable" behaviour yesterday, which included people defecating on the beach despite toilets being open and alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour.

 

Eddie countered that Mr Cummings can't be blamed for people defecating in the streets and Ms Slade agreed, putting that behaviour down to "a certain type of person" coming out of lockdown after three months of frustration.

 

She told Eddie people were dumping their cars in the middle of the road and "didn't care" about paying a penalty fine.

 

It was reportedly the same in Merseyside with thousands descending on to Formby beach.

 

Ms Slade was more optimistic about 4 July which will see pubs and restaurants reopen as people would not be able to take alcohol away from the proximity of the venue. This starkly contrasted scenes yesterday as people were bringing vast amounts of alcohol on to the sand.

All people are responsible for their own behaviour.

 

However, Cummings not getting sacked or made to apologise for breaking lockdown rules, coupled with the fact the government made him out to be an absolute hero ‘what any father would do’, will have lead people to believing that there really isn’t a consequence for breaking the rules.

 

Although I bet most of these people will have done what they did regardless-it’s good old fashioned ‘British common sense’.

Interesting article I read this morning:

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-...-breakdown.html

 

It does feel like the months of lockdown and pressures that come with it is resulting in a large amount of the country being extremely restless and I can only see this getting worse as time goes on.

 

The young people doing a lot of these things are bored, out of work and out of focused education and the mental impact this is having on them is leading to this anger being taken out in various forms. I do question myself what young people are expected to do at this point when all of the things they live for at that age have been taken away.

Yet another throwaway piece from a tory who uses third-grade logic. BLM -> violence -> bad!!1 We need to unite and not focus on the bad things!!1 There was so much good done in the past!!1 *insert a couple of extreme cases of people attacking the police*

 

'dailymail' and 'interesting' do not belong in the same sentence.

i was about to post something (i hope) was a really thoughtful and detailed piece about covid but we've got the one man culture war still going strong and totally taking over everything. it is s

 

he is the epitome of disrupter; there is no want to engage and contribute only rile and anger

 

how is he still a member? what does he bring other than a need to disrupt?

like... why would you spend your time logging onto the internet and deliberately bating people? but how has he come to dominate this space and it be accepted?

 

its like doing hamster wheels with somebody that poisons the forum and totally shifts the narrative of the thread

let's break it down; why do we go onto the internet? it is to express our views, live, learn, engage.

 

but this sad twat just comes onto this forum with only one intention: to disrupt.

 

to piss as many people as he can by saying inflammatory things that will garner a reaction

 

this forum would be a much better space without him as he sucks all of the life out what could be an engaging forum; he literally puts me off ever posting here

Vidcapper has been banned no? And PeaceMob only comes on occasionally.

 

With the other two I don't think being deliberately inflammatory is their raison d'être, even if inflammatory is what they can be.

Vidcapper has been banned no? And PeaceMob only comes on occasionally.

 

With the other two I don't think being deliberately inflammatory is their raison d'être, even if inflammatory is what they can be.

harve, you believe chris comes onto this forum with good intentions? wants to engage and wants to contribute?

harve, you believe chris comes onto this forum with good intentions? wants to engage and wants to contribute?

While it doesn't help that he's so very often wrong and offensive, I don't think he puts much thought into what he's saying whereas Vidcapper knew full well what he was doing.

While it doesn't help that he's so very often wrong and offensive, I don't think he puts much thought into what he's saying whereas Vidcapper knew full well what he was doing.

he fully knows what he is doing!

 

just because he isn't 'as bad' as vidcapper doesn't make him anymore acceptable; the whole "lesser of two evils" thing...

 

hes a deliberate disruptor and for years has ruined this forum for people...he puts people off of posting here; i just don't understand the ethos of him containing to be here

Can someone please explain to me what I have done wrong now. I have been on pre-mod now for weeks so every post has to be approved by a moderator before it appears. I can't see, having looked back, what I've said or posted wrong so please tell me Jakee seeing as you've stuck the knife in. Two Sun articles, about the teachers and Bournemouth which I thought were interesting but from now on I won't share any Sun articles at all. Your fault if you miss out on some news stories.

 

The teacher story was a bit contentious I admit but was in most papers and the TV news too. On the Sun site there were thousands of comments, some saying that she should have managed better as Suedy said and some agreeing that she shouldn't

have been suspended. I said here that I was in the latter group. Why aren't I allowed an OPINION one way or another? Hell even your hated Sun allowed either opinion.

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harve, you believe chris comes onto this forum with good intentions? wants to engage and wants to contribute?

 

 

 

Yes I do actually. I posted the news articles to generate some debate, heated maybe or maybe not. You won't see a new article posted from me again as this is all the thanks I get.

Can someone please explain to me what I have done wrong now. I have been on pre-mod now for weeks so every post has to be approved by a moderator before it appears. I can't see, having looked back, what I've said or posted wrong so please tell me Jakee seeing as you've stuck the knife in. Two Sun articles, about the teachers and Bournemouth which I thought were interesting but from now on I won't share any Sun articles at all. Your fault if you miss out on some news stories.

 

The teacher story was a bit contentious I admit and on their site there were thousands of comments, some saying that she should have managed better as Suedy said and some agreeing that she shouldn't

have been suspended. I said here that I was in the latter. Why aren't I allowed an OPINION one way or another? Hell even your hated Sun allowed either opinion.

I don't think they were referring to you. I think the comments were about the DM article posted by Alex P.

I don't think they were referring to you. I think the comments were about the DM article posted by Alex P.

 

 

Oh yeah, just read back and maybe you're right!

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