Advice needed please...

Loanranger

Blimey, I am so glad you won't be teaching my children.

marliepanda

I tried to help you by saying keeping your 'head in the game' would be helpful to your career.

Now you are on a weird little tirade against those in the career you wish to go into.

Get yourself a teaching job, and then come back and comment. The PGCE is a walk in the park compared to the job.

I am a primary school teacher, in Reception/Y1 so I'm not really preparing them for jobs at all, just teaching them how to be good friends, and the difference between your and you're.

Your list of things that are obsolete beyond KS2 (11 years of age) is astounding.

tomtontom

Lbstyling wrote: »

OK, I have poor spelling and use of homophones.

The problem is still academic.

I'm sure you have wonderful PowerPoint presentations for your classes and many many green pens. Great.

Handwriting quality, spelling, mental arithmetic, maths, languages, summative assessment, and many others are all obsolete beyond KS2. The only reason you picked up on these spelling mistakes is because I'm not using a spell checker.

The world your living in, like your arguement is obsolete.

Thats just by todays technology. The jobs you teach student for don't even exist yet. Change your mind set.

You'll find that better universities and employers are actually placing a far greater emphasis on the skills you refer to, due to a fall in standards in recent years. They are still actively taught and monitored in independent schools - reflected in their pupil achievements both in school and in their careers.

The key skills you feel are obsolete are actually indicators of quality, and far from obsolete.

marliepanda

All I can't believe I missed this earlier, but taking an Ofsted inspectors word on what teachers/schools think.

Ofsted and schools are NOT on the same page, believe me. Ask any school or teacher in the country.

Yes they jump through hoops to please them because there is no choice. But ask 10,000 teachers if they think 'senior ofsted inspectors' views are indicative of the actual teaching profession, opinions or expectations of the practitioners and I guarantee you a resounding no!

Darksparkle

Lbstyling wrote: »

Apologies- number is gross. Any yes this includes SMP.

Can you confirm how you have calculated that? It seems very low even if on SMP.

You said earlier your income for 2016/17 would be £4200, leaving the remaining £9543 for your partner.

If she normally earns £32,000 then if working for 3 to 4 months of this tax year before baby is due then that's at least £8000-£10,666 without SMP.

At the very least, SMP is 90% for 6 weeks then £139.58 for 33 weeks. I asked earlier if she has any enhanced maternity pay, can you please confirm? Most info online suggests she would.

When is she going on maternity leave?

FBaby

OP, you have to face the reality, however flexible the benefit system is, and however much you can take advantage of it, what you cannot do, and thank God for that, is use it as a tool to support your lifestyle choice to take off for whatever means, unless you are single parent.

As it's been said, you won't get your mortgage paid unless you claim JSA, and to do that, you would have to accept that they will pestering you to take on any work. As a trained teacher, you will have a very hard time convincing them that you can't get any supply work at all.

All you will get is child benefit and tax credits, and well, good luck living of this only paying for your mortgage, even if interest only.

I do have to say that I wouldn't half as concerned about the impact of your poor spelling on pupils as I am your attitude that you seem to think it is acceptable that tax payers should pay for you to take time off to do your house up. Many people are in your situation and they managed to fit it around working full-time. Why you think you shouldn't have too is quite disheartening.

sangie595

What I find most worrying about the OP is that they might one day end up teaching children. What a role model they will make. Their lifestyle choices are everyone else's fault. They are entitled to a living without working. Any excuse in the book is to be wheeled out to justify living off the taxpayers - who have presumably also just paid for the OP's course as well.

There are lots of people who have no alternative other than to rely on benefits, but the OP would openly like to consider becoming a scrounger - and there is no other word for it - because he isn't willing to take his responsibilities seriously. This is the kind of person who is getting everyone else on benefits a bad name. Perhaps one can only hope that they don't end up in a classroom

xylophone

Handwriting quality, spelling, mental arithmetic, maths, languages, summative assessment, and many others are all obsolete beyond KS2.

Good grief!:eek: I'm speechless!

sangie595

xylophone wrote: »

Good grief!:eek: I'm speechless!

But it'll be ok because speech is obsolete past KS2

xylophone

But it'll be ok because speech is obsolete past KS2

I'm well past KS2 - still speaking but will hurry out to purchase speech synthesiser....:rotfl: