Teacher training days

KellyWelly

woody01 wrote: »

Oh...and by the way, your chuckles earlier at the post regarding my use of an apostrophe............at least try and get it right.
I did use the symbol incorrectly but it was a HYPHON....not an apostrophe.

(all of a sudden 30K looks too high)

:rotfl:

milliebear00001

woody01 wrote: »

I earn an excellent salary and i do not need to prove it to you. (though if i had to it would be easy enough). If you are happy scraping by on peanuts then i am pleased for you.

30-35K is what i would expect for teacher.
I do not know which decade you are from, but 30-35K for a supposedly 'educated' position is pretty poor.

Oh...and by the way, your chuckles earlier at the post regarding my use of an apostrophe............at least try and get it right.
I did use the symbol incorrectly but it was a HYPHON....not an apostrophe.

(all of a sudden 30K looks too high)

Just realised what you wrote here regarding apostrophe use. Do you actually know what an apostrophe is Woody? Your hyphen use was also incorrect, but I let that slide as I thought it must be a typo. Do you even now realise where the apostrophe is in your badly written sentence, and why is was incorrect? If not, I pity the children who have you to help with their homework. Perhaps their mum is the more educated half though.

gregg1

woody01 wrote: »

I earn an excellent salary and i do not need to prove it to you. (though if i had to it would be easy enough). If you are happy scraping by on peanuts then i am pleased for you.

30-35K is what i would expect for teacher.
I do not know which decade you are from, but 30-35K for a supposedly 'educated' position is pretty poor.

Oh...and by the way, your chuckles earlier at the post regarding my use of an apostrophe............at least try and get it right.
I did use the symbol incorrectly but it was a HYPHON....not an apostrophe.

(all of a sudden 30K looks too high)

I am struggling here to equate your ability with the written word with the salary you earn!

woody01

milliebear00001 wrote: »

Just realised what you wrote here regarding apostrophe use. Do you actually know what an apostrophe is Woody? Your hyphen use was also incorrect, but I let that slide as I thought it must be a typo. Do you even now realise where the apostrophe is in your badly written sentence, and why is was incorrect? If not, I pity the children who have you to help with their homework. Perhaps their mum is the more educated half though.

My wife is actually very intelligent.
My use of puntuation, coupled with your snooty middle agedness (why though on your pittance i do not know), is highly amusing. Also the fact that it is the only argument you have shows how insignificant, not only in cyber land, but also in real life.

If this is your level of maturity, then i would be willing to bet the children you attempt to teach all turn out like you (poor little sods).

The teaching in this country over the last 15 years is shot to pieces and you epitamise everything that is wrong in the education sytem.

SugarSpun

There are more important things than money.

I was headhunted at the end of my PhD by a firm looking to turn me into an investment banker. I seriously considered it; the money being offered was silly enough that it seemed wrong to turn it down. Ultimately however I decided not to waste the ten years I spent learning about this thing that I love, and I'm currently working as a researcher on about a third of the starting salary. If I make it to full professor I'll still only be on the starting salary of the alternative, but I'm incredibly happy doing my job.

Teachers often* impress me with the dedication they feel for their jobs. Why else would they spend their evenings marking essays and their days trying to motivate kids being raised by parents who despise the people they leave their kids with all day? It's no wonder teachers have a nightmare time in the classroom when children are taught that the people in charge are of low intelligence because they're not being paid enough.

Inset days need to be wherever the LEA puts them, and it is not the fault of the teachers. Blaming them because someone in a distant office made a decision is absurd. But then, the people who do blame them tend to be the same people who make excuses when their kids don't do homework, or threaten the teacher, or take a week off school to lie beside a pool in Tenerife.


*not always; some teachers are fundamentally useless and should not be allowed in the classroom. In my experience they're a tiny minority though, which makes me happy.

peachyprice

woody01 wrote: »

My wife is actually very intelligent.
My use of puntuation, coupled with your snooty middle agedness (why though on your pittance i do not know), is highly amusing. Also the fact that it is the only argument you have shows how insignificant, not only in cyber land, but also in real life.

If this is your level of maturity, then i would be willing to bet the children you attempt to teach all turn out like you (poor little sods).

The teaching in this country over the last 15 years is shot to pieces and you epitamise everything that is wrong in the education sytem.

It's punctuation, not puntuation
epitomise, not epitamise

Good job your children have your actually very intelligent wife

simplethings

SugarSpun wrote: »

But then, the people who do blame them tend to be the same people who make excuses when their kids don't do homework, or threaten the teacher, or take a week off school to lie beside a pool in Tenerife.

Amen! Each day I walk into the classroom to do the job I love to do. I have been doing it for 20+ years and I am glad that I have done that. The down fall of education in recent years has been by parents who feel they know far more than anyone else does and believe everything their little :As tell them. I could tell you stories that would make most people run and hide. I have been beaten black and blue by children who have been so messed up by their parents that they may never recover. I have been told off by a parent because I have told their child not to do or to do something for their own safety or behaviour.

But, day in, day out, I still plan my lessons, read up on every possible way to help little Johnny learn.

Then I thank my lucky stars that my children have had such dedicated people teaching them and helping them to be productive members of society.

Few people can say that teachers didn't have a fundamentally important part of their lives.

pollypenny

Who's the the twit whose grammar and spelling are so shaky, he has to to resort to boasting about his wealth? The epitome of Thatcherism? :rolleyes:

Woody, I make plenty of typos with my long nails, but I get a red line underneath to remind me. I will be kind and assume that you want your
first person singular pronoun (I) in lower case for some sort of effect, rather than it being an error.

aimee21j

Entertaining thread- don't feed the troll though!!!

milliebear00001

I couldn't make head nor tail of Woody's last post! Too many mistakes to even bother correcting, and far worse literacy skills than my excellent Year 5s! He is to be pitied for his ignorance and inability to defend his point of view in a logical and coherent way.