blackn1ght

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

If you can’t hire enough teachers, hiring more teachers isn’t going to be viable.

Yeah I agree. But if conditions start to change then that'll help with recruitment. Maybe just start off reducing class sizes for specific lessons in high school, or trial it in select primary schools and funnel new teachers into those schools to help with retention. If your experience fresh out of uni is that you're dealing with only 15 kids then you might be inclined to stay in the profession for longer.

Dedicated graders sounds interesting and would definitely reduce the workload. You might only need one or two per school, depending on the size of the school, but it might make a big difference to how much free time teachers get. I also don't think primary school kids should get homework, so it would only be necessary for a high school to have dedicated graders.

Also: fuck off with uniforms and policing them. In the time since I wrote my original post to writing this one, we've had a communication from school that some kids in my sons class aren't wearing the correct coloured items for forest school. But in the original letter they sent out regarding what to wear for it, it just states jogging bottoms, long sleave t-shirt - no mention of colours, but now they're saying that kids must come in wearing the correct colours. Who in the flying fuck cares what colour trousers they're wearing? They're making additional work for themselves for no reason. We constantly get updates from school around people not wearing the right stuff. Drives me mad!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

This is the first time I've seen it like this, and I've been using C# nearly daily for over 10 years!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm not a teacher so I'm just talking out of my arse here:

I think just having smaller class sizes would be a good step forward. Keep it to about 15 students per teacher and that would reduce the workload, reduce disruption from unruly students but it would also help the students by having more teacher time available to them.

It would require a huge investment though as we'd need to double the number of teachers and also infrastructure in order to have more classrooms. And also increase their pay.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't surprise me. They never even supported it with the Assistant / Google Home. There's pretty much zero point in onboarding with any Google products anymore.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

God I wish I only had to use MFA once every two weeks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They provide a place to live that you can move into almost immediately with little upfront money, and with no worry about any maintenance costs that are associated with owning a property.

It's very useful for social mobility as it allows people to move around for work relatively easy if they plan on relocating, especially when they're young.

Buying a property not only takes a sizeable upfront amount of capital but it's also a very slow process. I think it took 6 or 7 months for us to go from putting an offer in to getting the keys.

That's the service and that's why a rental market is important. I'm not defending scrupulous landlords here, they're 100% an issue and there definitely needs to be changes to address that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Sorry just trying to find the part of this thread where we were talking about the history of the UK... Oh no wait you're just doing the classic whataboutism that you guys enjoy, as if I'm going to start getting all defensive 👍. Nice try though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The president himself is Jewish, with something like 8 million Jews living in Ukraine. How much of the far right make up the Ukrainian parliament?

Stepan Bandera

Yeah fair enough, it's not great to be celebrating this guy. I suspect this is more about a big "fuck you" to the Soviet Union rather than celebrating his collaboration with the Nazis, given what happened to Ukraine in the 30's. To them he symbolises the fight for independence from Russia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

dismiss all outside information

I dismiss the Russian lies, yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Everything you've just said is textbook Russian myths. And you've got the audacity to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.

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