Morning All Welcome To Wednesday!!

Burlesque_Babe

lush dress SRM

Ellie - this was my only opportunity really to get into teaching and I'm glad I didn't give up a year to do the PGCE, teaching in a school would have done me in! Even being with a teacher for 13 years didn't give me the full picture of how it really is and it seems he was in a really closeted world working in an independent school. To give an example of a school he has been in on supply recently (and I live in a part of the UK where you'd think kids behaved!!):

On his first day a kid told him to his face to fook off and he said please don't use that kind of language. The kid looked at him in amazement and he was taken to one side by another member of staff and told 'unless swearing takes place in a manner which is violent or threatening, ignore it as it's part of how the children are'. This was followed on the same day by a child being re-introduced to a class after being suspended and then throwing a table and walking out. He was taken by a 'trustee' pupil to a room to be dealt with. The same school has kids climbing out of windows and one pushed my ex aside when he asked him to take his ipod earphones out so he could talk to him.

And this is in a school which recently had this god awful article in the paper about how respectful the children are and how teachers aren't allowed to shout at the kids and how modern and far reaching their teaching methods are and how the staff are fully supported. Utter bollox really.

elliemoo

I'm sort at the stage that even if I did have the nerve to give up my job, which is quite secure, I would have no idea what I would really like to do. I want to do something that matters, not in a big ruling the world type of way but that just makes a difference somewhere even if only a small difference and then again I always have to be conscious of my family responsibilities. I don't even really dream of a particular career.

bookseller1980

I love the dress SRM.
I hope Oh has come home with the electric money Claire.
What happened to the red hot day we were promised? Windy and cold here.

sammy115

elliemoo wrote: »

BB I hope it works out for you.

I am 41, have 3 kids, work full-time in a job I hate but can see no way out. I have neither the time nor energy to go back to studying and I have no real skills I could take to a new profession. Only because I have to pay the mortgage and support my kids I am stuck as a wage slave. I do have an OH who also works full-time but we don't have high paid jobs and every penny counts, as my kids get older they just get more costly, but I do love them and wouldn't change them. I am totally risk averse so will just have to perserve with my job.

I disagree, I am 44 shhhhh (no one else knows) have 4 kids and i had a job i hated. I now have my own business and whilst the future is uncertain I love getting up every morning. Its hard when you have a mortgage and a family but if you can study to do something towards doing something you want to do then go for it...even if it is on a part time basis.

I think what i am saying is don't write yourself off at 41 you are never too old to make a change....
xx !!!!ed sammyx

sammy115

I do love that dress as well btw...not tarty at all...

*maybe I am just a tart* said in a nellie boswell type of way

elliemoo

Sammy, ta very much for the encouraging words. I haven't written myself off, not just yet, but I just don't know what it is I would really like to do. I have a good general education but it is very general with average qualifications and I have no real skills to take with me, working for the government doesn't really help in the personal development area, but I will keep my options and my mind open.

Anyway Dermot O'Leary is interviewing Gordon Brown, no idea what Gordon is saying but Dermot is definitely worth looking at.

schoolrunmum

sammy115 wrote: »

I do love that dress as well btw...not tarty at all...

*maybe I am just a tart* said in a SRM type of way

Mate asked me "What would you wear with it?"
I said "No knickers".........I think she meant in the way of accesories!!

Burlesque_Babe

I guess Gordon is still in his hair shirt beating himself relentlessly after his gaffe earlier :rotfl:

bookseller1980

Where' everybody gone? Surely not watching Gordon?

elliemoo

My big kids have jsut arrived home from Ju Jitsu so quiet is shattered and need to get them organised for bed.

Evening all, might check back later.